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Spiritual Grammar: Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity

Spiritual Grammar: Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity

Longo, F. Dominic

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Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions, Book 4

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismComparative Religion

ISBN10: 0823283690
ISBN13: 9780823283699
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jun 4 2019
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Spiritual Grammar identifies a genre of religious literature that until now has not been recognized as such. In this surprising and theoretically nuanced study, F. Dominic Longo reveals how grammatical structures of language addressed in two medieval texts published nearly four centuries apart, from distinct religious traditions, offer a metaphor for how the self is embedded in spiritual reality. Reading The Grammar of Hearts (Nahw al-qulūb) by the great Sufi shaykh and Islamic scholar 'Abd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī (d. 1074) and Moralized Grammar (Donatus moralizatus) by Christian theologian Jean Gerson (d. 1429), Longo reveals how both authors use the rules of language and syntax to advance their pastoral goals. Indeed, grammar provides the two masters with a fresh way of explaining spiritual reality to their pupils and to discipline the souls of their readers in the hopes that their writings would make others adept in the grammar of the heart.

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