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feminist scholars may actually create more harm than good in their efforts to cast early modern women writers as feminists.^175 ...

of gender were in some respects remarkably fluid.”^179 Additionally, it must be recalled that the Puritans followed the lead of ...

Spiritual Marriage in Isaac Ambrose Isaac Ambrose employed many of the same biblical texts that inspired his fellow Puritan prea ...

again did not use this book as the primary text for any of his writings. While Ambrose’s specific references to Bernard on spiri ...

heaven for ever and ever.”^190 Ambrose reiterates that the marriage takes place between Jesus Christ and the soul, “[t]he Lord C ...

self hereafter again and again, many and many a time in those delicious intimacies of thy Spiritual marriage.”^195 Ambrose is co ...

nature a substance, created by God.”^200 Furthermore, Ambrose follows the lead of earlier Puritans in recognizing the challenge ...

Indeed, one of the challenges for followers of Jesus is to “feel the Spirit in his stirrings” so that they might “co-operate wit ...

teaching that spiritual love arises from faith and the reciprocal relationship that the experience of love refreshes a person’s ...

Set us on fire, burn us, make us new and transform us, that nothing besides thee may live in us. O wound very deeply our hearts ...

is not the only time that Ambrose employs this type of language. Previously in describing his understanding of communion with Ch ...

asceticism typically experienced greater contemplation and Ambrose’s understanding of the role of spiritual practices in guiding ...

through faith. However, there is more. All of the Protestant writers that have been examined in this chapter would recognize tha ...

guarding against the perceived excesses he found in late medieval individualized piety. Significantly in the Lord’s Supper the d ...

Another feature that must be highlighted is that some of the Puritans included in this chapter followed Bernard’s example in usi ...

Rutherford, that it is difficult “to understand the ideas of Puritan writers without reference to their principal intellectual s ...

Chapter 3 Contemplative Biography For the things wherein they excelled (Ambrose and his brother Machin), I have not known the li ...

the soul.”^2 None of this happens without the active involvement of the Spirit of God. Clearly, Ambrose understood spiritual mar ...

Christ?” He replies “a contemplation of Christs love, and desires after further sense of it, Eph. 3.17, 18, 19.”^6 While the mea ...

Nature and Structure of the Contemplative Biography A contemplative biography offers a window into the soul of another person. I ...