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Evagrius Ponticus, writing in the fifth century, states openly that there is nothing within the person that may keep her from desiring wholeness and that
The archetype of wholeness has a long history. It appears, for example, in the Pauline letters under the name of pleroma, where it refers to
Over the course of many years, I have met many people who have encountered the theology put forward by Matthew Fox. Often, he was the
While Mechtild of Magdeburg might well have influenced Dante concerning the imaginary shape of Purgatory (see DM Nov. 21), another woman is remembered as the
Yesterday in my DM, I did not intend in the least to trivialize mental pain, or to suggest that it can simply be cured through
As the month of November rolls on, some of us living in the Northern hemisphere experience mental suffering more than usual. Contemporary medicine has coined
The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is something that one is inclined to toss into the sentimental garbage bin, until one finds its
Dante’s scholars agree that the character of Matelda represents the “prelapsarian” human being, that is, the person not weighed down by original sin. In yesterday’s
Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297) is yet another beguine who lived in the 13th century, like Hadewijch and Marguerite Porete (see DMs Nov. 6 and 7).
Like Marguerite Porete (see yesterday’s DM), Hadewijch of Brabant was a beguine, a learned woman, and wrote in the language of the people — in
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