Angels of light? : : sanctity and the discernment of spirits in the early modern period / / edited by Clare Copeland, Jan Machielsen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Copeland, Clare.; Machielsen, Jan.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 164; Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 164.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

\'And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.\' (2 Corinthians 11:14) Paul's warning of false apostles and false righteousness struck a special chord in the period of the European Reformations. At no other time was the need for the discernment of spirits fe...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen
• Introduction / Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen
• Angels, Demons, and Everything in Between: Spiritual Beings in Early Modern Europe / Euan Cameron
• Dangerous Visions: The Experience of Teresa of Avila and the Teaching of John of the Cross / Colin Thompson
• Participating in the Divine: Visions and Ecstasies in a Florentine Convent / Clare Copeland
• Heretical Saints and Textual Discernment: The Polemical Origins of the Acta Sanctorum (1643–1940) / Jan Machielsen
• Augustine Baker: Discerning the “Call” and Fashioning Dead Disciples / Victoria Van Hyning
• A Seventeenth-Century Prophet Confronts His Failures: Paul Felgenhauer’s Speculum Poenitentiae, Buß-Spiegel (1625) / Leigh T. I. Penman
• Visions, Dreams, and the Discernment of Prophetic Passions: Sense and Reason in the Writings of the Cambridge Platonists and John Beale, 1640–60 / R. J. Scott
• Gijsbert Voet and Discretio Spirituum after Descartes / Anthony Ossa-Richardson
• “Incorporeal Substances”: Discerning Angels in Later Seventeenth-Century England / Laura Sangha
• Afterword: Angels of Light and Images of Sanctity / Stuart Clark
• Further Reading / Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen.