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Spiritual Grammar

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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-qul?b) by the great Sufi shaykh and Islamic scholar ‘Abd al-Kar?m al-Qushayr? (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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ISBN: 9780823275724
Publication date: 3rd July 2017
Author: F. Dominic Longo
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 256 pages
Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
Genres: Literary theory
European history: medieval period, middle ages
Comparative religion