Theopathic Experience and Theophanic Language. The Boundary Condition of Aesthetic Beauty in Teresa of Avila

The aim of this article is to suggest that beyond the explicit source Augustinian Patristic figures of Beauty and the interior Master and the hypothetical influence of Sufi poetry of pure love that dwells in the hearts, Teresa of Avila constructed as writer, a record that has a symbolic own paradoxi...

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Main Author: Cecilia Inés Avenatti de Palumbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2015-04-01
Series:Teoliterária: Revista Brasileira de Literaturas e Teologias
Online Access:http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/teoliteraria/article/view/22880
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Summary:The aim of this article is to suggest that beyond the explicit source Augustinian Patristic figures of Beauty and the interior Master and the hypothetical influence of Sufi poetry of pure love that dwells in the hearts, Teresa of Avila constructed as writer, a record that has a symbolic own paradoxical tension between the “apophatic way” of indifference and silence of all that is not God and the affirmation of the soul as a castle whose concentric crystalline inhabits interiority “Beauty theophanic”. So Teresian proposal is considered near-mystical poetic languages of waiting and emptiness of our time, to the extent that through the symbolic language provides tracing and mystical aesthetics of nudity, in which the Master inside reveal the pristine beauty of pure light as the goal of man’s way to the encounter with God.<br /><strong>Keywords</strong>: aesthetic - Teresa of Avila - Interior Master - theophanic language.<br /><br />
ISSN:2236-9937