Spiritual Marriage and - Durham e-Theses - Durham University

explore Ambrose’s teaching on meditation including his definition and types of meditation. This will be followed by an investiga ...

have of God in Heaven, like the Angels beholding of the face of God; Meditation is like the kindling of fire, and Contemplation ...

Isaac Ambrose’s Teaching on Meditation Ambrose begins his teaching on meditation with this definition, “[m]editation is a stedfa ...

meditation “is a digesting of all the things of God.”^14 While this nicely parallels the imagery of Guigo II who in the twelfth- ...

Next, Ambrose examines the two types of meditation in greater detail. Following the normal Puritan pattern occasional or sudden ...

of God, to whom I am to approve my self in my particular calling.”^22 This is a vital testimony of the Puritan practice to alway ...

stir up the proper response.^26 He then provides three very detailed examples of meditations, the first of the soul’s love to Ch ...

the eternity of hell, I can now with an holy comfort, and humble triumph think upon death, judgment, hell, and those endless tor ...

my self, and my self in God.”^35 He confesses the difficulty of restraining his desire requesting, “[n]ow begin that Hallelujah ...

Kaufmann’s research distilled “two divergent traditions in Puritan meditation.”^42 The first originated with Hall and his major ...

However, this prompts the larger question of who influenced Hall in developing his popular approach. He indicates his inspiratio ...

Closely related is the question of continuities and discontinuities between the Roman Catholic and Puritan approaches to meditat ...

distortion and there was always some blurring of boundaries both within and between these two methods. Nonetheless, first the ro ...

true Ignatian form, and to savor and enjoy it. Conversely, Puritans were usually taught to explore and apply the insights to the ...

are literally similar, but of different meaning.”^66 Anthony Lane’s meticulous research on Calvin’s use of the church fathers pr ...

out against the Jewes; in this bloody sweat of Christ I see another use.”^73 The other reference is to the repentant thief on th ...

Love is the driving force within the contemplative experience.^81 This is hardly a surprise since it is related to spiritual mar ...

between Bernard and Calvin is that for Bernard contemplation was primarily relational, while for Calvin it was essentially doxol ...

the first to engage in this as McGinn’s summary indicates, the “fundamental aim of monastic spirituality was not so much to stri ...

1662 with “the dashing at the Restoration of so many Puritan hopes.”^100 Ambrose wrote all but his two final works before 1662. ...