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Institute for the Study of Spirituality

Coordinator: Rob Faesen

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At the beginning of the academic year 2001-2002, the Institute for the Study of Spiritualitywas founded at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the KU Leuven, in collaboration with the North-Belgian Province of the Society of Jesus.

The main purpose of the Institute for the Study of Spirituality is the study of Christian spirituality in its diversity of sources (literary and non-literary). The Institute focuses on the history and content of medieval spirituality and mysticism in the Low Countries. The preferred method is the study of the sources according to each author's own terminology and his or her own hermeneutical framework.

An important presupposition is that the authors from the history of Christian spirituality have their own place in the area of theological research. Spiritual and mystical authors are, precisely because of their (mystical) experience and their intellectual quest for an adequate interpretation thereof, ‘theo-logians’ in an original way. Because of the unique contributions of mystical authors, the Institute is engaged in promoting dialogue with different research units within theology as well as with philosophy. 

 

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Recent Publications

  • Satoshi Kikuchi, "Jan van Leeuwen's Criticism of Meister Eckhart: An Aspect of the Impact from the Papal Bull In agro dominico in 14th Century Brabant," Medieval Mystical Theology (2013, f.c.)
  • Satoshi Kikuchi, "Ruusbroec's Concept of gemeen (Common) Reconsidered," Ons Geestelijk Erf (2012, f.c.)
  • Rob Faesen, Martin Sebastian Kallungal, and Ineke Cornet (eds.), Mystical Anthropology: Cross-Religious Perspectives (Leuven: Peeters, 2012)
  • Ineke Cornet and Rob Faesen, "Christological Aspects of the Mystical Union with God in John of Ruusbroec and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons," Sacris Erudiri 50 (2011): 505-537
  • Rob Faesen, "La tradition mystique chrétienne et la dignité de la personne humaine,"Theologiques 18:2 (2010): 15-42
  • Rob Faesen, "The Seventeenth Century Crisis of Mysticism in the Society of Jesus: The Analysis of Jean-Joseph Surin (1600-1665)," Bijdragen 71:3 (2010): 268-288
  • Rob Faesen, Ineke Cornet, T. Clemens, and K. Schepers (eds.), De Arnhemse mystieke preken in context (Leuven: Peeters, 2010)
  • Rob Faesen, "John Ruusbroec as a Major Contemplative Christian Author," Sino-Christian Studies 3 (2007): 61-84

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