Early Modern Mysticism & The Political
Wednesday 13 & Thursday 14 June 2018
Titus Brandsma Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Huize Heyendael
Wednesday June 13th
12.00: Registration/coffee/light lunch
Chair: Inigo Bocken
13.00: Introduction by Inigo Bocken, TBI-director
13.10: Marc De Kesel (Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen, NL)
Loving Your Neighbour Purely: Mysticism & Politics in Fénelon
Respondent: Ruud Welten
13.55: Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago, Chicago, US)
Varieties of Mystical Annihilation in the Seventeenth Century
Respondent: Huub Welzen
14.40: Gian Ackermans (Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL)
The Penitent’s Power: Controversies among Catholics in the Northern
Netherlands c. 1700
Respondent: Charles Caspers
15.25: Coffee Break
Chair: Huub Welzen
15.45: Cliff Knighten (Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, TX, US)
Incarnation, Anéantissement, and the Formation of the Modern Self in 17th Century French Spirituality: a Critical Appraisal in Dialogue with Charles Taylor
Respondent: Marc De Kesel
16.30: Eduard Kimman (Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL)
Money and the Interior Life: the Spirituality of the Procurator or Treasurer in Early Modern Religious Houses
Respondent: Joost van der Net
17.15: Inigo Bocken (Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen, NL)
Conjectural Politics: Nicholas of Cusa’s Very Early Modern Mystical Foundation of Political Consensus
Respondent: Jonne Hoek
18.00: Closing remarks
19.00: Conference dinner
Thursday June 14th
09.30: Coffee
Chair: Charles Caspers
10.00: Jad Hatem (Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, LEB)
The Role of Mysticism in the Oriental Christians’ Political Strategies
Respondent: Heleen Murre-van den Berg
10.45: Wolfgang Christian Schneider (Cusanus Hochschule, Kues, DE)
Schwenckfeld and Sudermann as Mediators between Late Medieval Spirituality and Baroque Religiosity
Respondent: Vladimír Hrabal
11.30: Coffee Break
11.45: Kees Schepers (University of Antwerp, BE)
Meister Eckhart, a Man for all Creeds?
Respondent: Michel Dijkstra
12.30: Lunch
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Chair: Inigo Bocken
Herman Westerink (Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen, NL) Jean de Labadie: Mystic – Activist – Politician |
Chair: Marc De Kesel
François Manga (Fellow Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen, NL) The Imaginary Pilgrimage and the Outbreak of the Subjectivity in the Early Modernity
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Liesbeth Eugelink (Fellow Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen, NL)
Mystical Loss of Self in Modern Literature |
Dominiek Hoens (Ghent University, BE) “Where Then Is the Self?” On Pascal’s Epistemological Critique of the Ego Moderator: Ben Schomakers |
Chair: Marc De Kesel
15.15: Theo Witkamp (Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam, NL)
The Fractured Self of a Modern Mystic: Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Respondent: Ria van den Brandt
16.00: August Higgins (Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, TX, US)
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Politics of the Natural
Respondent: Gerrit Steunebrink
16.45: Vasileios Syros (Academy of Finland, Helsinki, FI)
The Self and the Public and Private Aspects of Religion in Early Modern Jewish Political Thought
Respondent: Evert van der Zweerde
17.30: Closing remarks by Inigo Bocken
17.40: Drinks
