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Papers by Inigo Bocken
Verlag Karl Alber eBooks, 2023
Ethische Perspectieven, 2002
Handelingen: Tijdschrift voor Praktische Theologie en Religiewetenschap
De dansende derwisjen in hun oogverblindende elegantie, begeleid door ritmisch, haast extatisch h... more De dansende derwisjen in hun oogverblindende elegantie, begeleid door ritmisch, haast extatisch handgeklap en tromgeroffel: ze spreken tot de verbeelding van velen, ook buiten de islamitische wereld. In Konya of Istanboel zijn ze tot toeristische trekpleister geworden. Ze roepen beelden op van een magisch Morgenland en misschien ook wel de dromen van een gemeenschappelijke spirituele kern die verborgen is (of ligt?) achter de uitwendige dogma’s en instituties die de religies verdelen.
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Art and Mysticism, 2018
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Kann das Denken malen?, 2010
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Ethische Perspectieven, 1999
Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ, 2019
Looking Beyond?, 2012
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Religions
It is noteworthy that the thinking of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) has recurred again and again a... more It is noteworthy that the thinking of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) has recurred again and again among prominent recent theologians who, critical of Modern rationality, have brought back to the fore the importance of liturgical praxis. Often, however, the mystical theology of Nicholas of Cusa had been presented during the Twentieth Century primarily as an unfinished precursor to Modern subject-philosophy in the line of Kant. In this contribution, I will consider this striking change of perspective against the background of recent debates concerning the role of liturgy not only for theology, but also for philosophy. Does Cusa’s ‘art of praising’ offer a way out of the dilemmas facing liturgical thought?
The Council of Basel (around 1431-1435) was one of the key moments of 15 th Century political and... more The Council of Basel (around 1431-1435) was one of the key moments of 15 th Century political and religious tensions, preparing the time of the Reformation and its confessional religious wars. On the Council, the confl ict between the reform-party of the Counciliarists and the more conservative defenders of papal authority, prepared already in 14 th Century, came to a climax. At the end, the confl ict escalated in such a way, that the Council broke up, it was even never offi cially closed. Together with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Council was one of the most infl uential events leading to the breakdown of medieval order.
Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ, 2019
In his "Mystic Fable", the French theologian, psychoanalyst and historian Michel de Certeau (1925... more In his "Mystic Fable", the French theologian, psychoanalyst and historian Michel de Certeau (1925-1986) describes in a very subtle and detailed way the crisis of the corpus mysticum at the end of the Middle Ages and Early Modernity. 1 Certeau elaborates in this book the insights of his theological teacher, Henri de Lubac (1896-1991), turns these however in a different direction. He shares with his teacher the awareness of the fundamental meaning of the historical process which was at the basis of this cultural crisis: the radical disintegration of the mystical body, which has been the absolute unity of church and society since the days of Dionysius Areopagita and during the Middle Ages and which found its cornerstone in the Eucharistic event-the presence of the absent Body of Christ. 2 Unlike Lubac's criticism of modern secular and dualistic culture as the tragic consequence of this disintegration, requesting for reconstruction and rebuilding of the original mystical body, Michel de Certeau seems to have chosen a radically different path. 3 For in his "Mystic Fable"-but also in books like "The Weakness of Faith" 4 or even in his more secular scholarship-"The Everyday Life Practices" 5-Certeau seems to affirm the historical event of the dismemberment of the Mystical Body as the necessary condition not only of culture in general, but also of Christian faith and theology-and of course: of mysticism which in his view is, being a proper and autonomous discourse, mainly a result of (and a reaction on) this crisis. Mysticism is the expression of the underlying melancholy about the absence of God in His creation, the silence of the living Word within reality after the breakdown of the procedures representing the mystical body. 6 Nominalist philosophy and theology are in Certeau's view of just the expression of a more profound crisis which infected the whole society and culture and which is a crisis of the desire for the Body of Christ. The tragic separation between the sophisticated institutions and the inner experience of the Divine-which also revealed the abyss of the modern subject-the dominance of technocratic respectively instrumental reason, these are
Die Modernitäten des Nikolaus von Kues
This book offers historical, philosophical and theological studies on the meaning of conflicts in... more This book offers historical, philosophical and theological studies on the meaning of conflicts in life and thinking of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) and deals with his attempts to develop a model for peace and tolerance.
Verlag Karl Alber eBooks, 2023
Ethische Perspectieven, 2002
Handelingen: Tijdschrift voor Praktische Theologie en Religiewetenschap
De dansende derwisjen in hun oogverblindende elegantie, begeleid door ritmisch, haast extatisch h... more De dansende derwisjen in hun oogverblindende elegantie, begeleid door ritmisch, haast extatisch handgeklap en tromgeroffel: ze spreken tot de verbeelding van velen, ook buiten de islamitische wereld. In Konya of Istanboel zijn ze tot toeristische trekpleister geworden. Ze roepen beelden op van een magisch Morgenland en misschien ook wel de dromen van een gemeenschappelijke spirituele kern die verborgen is (of ligt?) achter de uitwendige dogma’s en instituties die de religies verdelen.
Item does not contain fulltext21 p
Art and Mysticism, 2018
Item does not contain fulltex
Kann das Denken malen?, 2010
Item does not contain fulltex
Ethische Perspectieven, 1999
Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ, 2019
Looking Beyond?, 2012
Item does not contain fulltex
Item does not contain fulltex
Item does not contain fulltex
Religions
It is noteworthy that the thinking of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) has recurred again and again a... more It is noteworthy that the thinking of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) has recurred again and again among prominent recent theologians who, critical of Modern rationality, have brought back to the fore the importance of liturgical praxis. Often, however, the mystical theology of Nicholas of Cusa had been presented during the Twentieth Century primarily as an unfinished precursor to Modern subject-philosophy in the line of Kant. In this contribution, I will consider this striking change of perspective against the background of recent debates concerning the role of liturgy not only for theology, but also for philosophy. Does Cusa’s ‘art of praising’ offer a way out of the dilemmas facing liturgical thought?
The Council of Basel (around 1431-1435) was one of the key moments of 15 th Century political and... more The Council of Basel (around 1431-1435) was one of the key moments of 15 th Century political and religious tensions, preparing the time of the Reformation and its confessional religious wars. On the Council, the confl ict between the reform-party of the Counciliarists and the more conservative defenders of papal authority, prepared already in 14 th Century, came to a climax. At the end, the confl ict escalated in such a way, that the Council broke up, it was even never offi cially closed. Together with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Council was one of the most infl uential events leading to the breakdown of medieval order.
Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ, 2019
In his "Mystic Fable", the French theologian, psychoanalyst and historian Michel de Certeau (1925... more In his "Mystic Fable", the French theologian, psychoanalyst and historian Michel de Certeau (1925-1986) describes in a very subtle and detailed way the crisis of the corpus mysticum at the end of the Middle Ages and Early Modernity. 1 Certeau elaborates in this book the insights of his theological teacher, Henri de Lubac (1896-1991), turns these however in a different direction. He shares with his teacher the awareness of the fundamental meaning of the historical process which was at the basis of this cultural crisis: the radical disintegration of the mystical body, which has been the absolute unity of church and society since the days of Dionysius Areopagita and during the Middle Ages and which found its cornerstone in the Eucharistic event-the presence of the absent Body of Christ. 2 Unlike Lubac's criticism of modern secular and dualistic culture as the tragic consequence of this disintegration, requesting for reconstruction and rebuilding of the original mystical body, Michel de Certeau seems to have chosen a radically different path. 3 For in his "Mystic Fable"-but also in books like "The Weakness of Faith" 4 or even in his more secular scholarship-"The Everyday Life Practices" 5-Certeau seems to affirm the historical event of the dismemberment of the Mystical Body as the necessary condition not only of culture in general, but also of Christian faith and theology-and of course: of mysticism which in his view is, being a proper and autonomous discourse, mainly a result of (and a reaction on) this crisis. Mysticism is the expression of the underlying melancholy about the absence of God in His creation, the silence of the living Word within reality after the breakdown of the procedures representing the mystical body. 6 Nominalist philosophy and theology are in Certeau's view of just the expression of a more profound crisis which infected the whole society and culture and which is a crisis of the desire for the Body of Christ. The tragic separation between the sophisticated institutions and the inner experience of the Divine-which also revealed the abyss of the modern subject-the dominance of technocratic respectively instrumental reason, these are
Die Modernitäten des Nikolaus von Kues
This book offers historical, philosophical and theological studies on the meaning of conflicts in... more This book offers historical, philosophical and theological studies on the meaning of conflicts in life and thinking of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) and deals with his attempts to develop a model for peace and tolerance.