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Previously the importance of the object of contemplation was mentioned. Ambrose clarifies the reason for this discerning focus s ...

The next category of contemplative vision is beholding. 2 Corinthians 3:18 which was occasionally connected with the examples of ...

overwhelming that it transforms a person more into the likeness of Jesus. Therefore, he assures his readers, “so God receives no ...

beholding; suppose they could weare out their eyes at the eye-holes in beholding Christ, they should still desire to see more. O ...

“disquieted with worldly troubles.”^231 This introduces the benefits of contemplation that will shortly be examined. There are s ...

Christ’s likeness, and a deepening and expanding sense of enjoyment of God. First, contemplation provides a person with a new se ...

troubles.”^240 Ambrose did not devote as much attention to this as some of the other effects of contemplation, but Baxter did de ...

heart to us.”^245 He also provides a number of suggestions of how to maintain heavenly conversations including taking advantage ...

conceived in us, in a spiritual sense by the same holy Ghost.”^249 Realizing that conception is only the beginning Ambrose asser ...

While Ambrose does not employ the common medieval distinction between Mary and Martha and balancing the contemplative and active ...

a guide to contemplation, were more likely to invite contemplative practices and experiences than his other works. Ambrose’s usa ...

and “that these reflections are ... often [pursued] for their alleged ability to transform the soul as it engages imaginatively ...

Chapter
5 The Rhetoric of Ravishment: The Language of Delight and Enjoyment This day the Lord cast one into a spiritual, heavenl ...

practice sought to deepen a person’s experience of being in communion with Christ. This provides the connection with this presen ...

Definition and Use of Ravishment in the Writings of Isaac Ambrose Ambrose provides his readers with a clear awareness of his usa ...

Ambrose employed the negative use of ravish only once. In describing the struggles of Jacob in Genesis 34 he declares “after his ...

the tension associated with this term. Accusations of God’s violence as a rapist abound. John Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV “Batter my ...

Beek’s detailed study of devotional literature in the Puritans. His focus was on new vocabulary, which among the Puritans includ ...

then adds this note, “[o]r, thou hast taken mine heart: or, hast ravished, or wounded mine heart.”^16 The Westminster Annotation ...

and worldly.” Furthermore, even when a person does experience God these times are relatively brief. Here he quotes Bernard’s pop ...