Esotericism and the Scholastic Imagination: The Origins of Esoteric Practice in Christian Kataphatic Spirituality

Scholars agree that the imagination is central to esoteric practice. While the esoteric vis imaginativa is usually attributed to the infux of Neoplatonism in the Italian Renaissance, this article argues that many of its key properties were already in place in medieval scholasticism. Two aspects of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Egil Asprem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aren Roukema 2016-12-01
Series:Correspondences
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Online Access:https://correspondencesjournal.com/ojs/ojs/index.php/home/article/download/38/38