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Vida

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En Vida, la mirada de Heinrich Seuse, cargada de un acento claramente cristocéntrico, le lleva a reinterpretar buena parte del pensamiento de su maestro Eckhart a partir del sufrimiento de Cristo y de su necesaria imitación. La alta escuela del abandono (gelassenheit) por él pregonada enseña al ser humano a mirarse en el espejo del Cristo de la Pasión para, conformando su imagen a la de Cristo, transformarla en la Deidad. Pero quizá el rasgo más característico del pensamiento de Seuse sea su teoría de la imagen, que establece como método eficaz para alcanzar la ausencia de toda imagen. Superar las imágenes por medio de las imágenes se convierte así en una mistagogía destinada a mostrar la verdadera brecha que lleva a la Deidad.

318 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1362

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Henry Suso

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Henry Suso (Also called Amandus, a name adopted in his writings, and Heinrich Seuse in German) was a German mystic, declared Blessed in 1831 by Gregory XVI, who assigned his feast in the Dominican Order to March 2. The Dominicans now celebrate his feast on January 23, the "open" day nearest the day of his death.

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This is one of the weirdest books I've ever read. It seems to be two or three books sewn together, from the initial self-mutilating very medieval monasticism to the quasi-romance adventure to the spiritual wisdom ending (kind of tedious), a poor man's "Saint John of the Cross." A good glimpse into the world in which it was composed.
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