The Mystical Element Of Religion as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her Friends, Volume I

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Author

Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1852-1925

Title

The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 1 (of 2)

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Produced by Julie Barkley, High-res images and replacement pngs from TIA and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements

Subject

Catherine, of Genoa, Saint, 1447-1510

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50205

Release Date

October 14, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME — THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION
4. 4.PART I INTRODUCTION — CHAPTER I THE THREE CHIEF FORCES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION — Introductory. — I. The First of the Three Forces: Hellenism, the Thirst for Richness and Harmony. — II. The Second of the Three Forces: Christianity, the Revelation of Personality and Depth. — III. Science: the Apprehension and Conception Of Brute Fact and Iron Law. — IV. Summing up: Hellenism or Harmonization, Christianity or Spiritual Experience, and Science or Acceptance of a Preliminary Mechanism, all three necessary to Man. — CHAPTER II THE THREE ELEMENTS OF RELIGION — Introductory. — I. The Three Elements, as they successively appear in the Child, the Youth, and the Adult Man. — II. Each Element ever accompanied by some amount of the other two. Difficulty of the Transitions from one stage to the other. — III. Parallels to this Triad of Religious Elements. — IV. Distribution of the Three Elements amongst Mankind and throughout Human History. — V. Causes operative in all Religion towards Minimizing or Suppressing one or other Element, or towards denying the need of any Multiplicity. — VI. The Special Motives operating in each Element towards the Suppression of the other Elements. — VII. Three Final Objections to such a conception of Religion, and their Answers.
5. 5.PART II BIOGRAPHICAL — CHAPTER III CATHERINE FIESCA ADORNA’S LIFE, UP TO HER CONVERSION; AND THE CHIEF PECULIARITIES PREDOMINANT THROUGHOUT HER CONVERT YEARS — Introductory. — I. Proposed Study of the Mystical-Volitional Element in a Particular, Concrete Instance: St. Catherine of Genoa. — II. The Materials and Aids towards such a Study. — III. Peculiarities of the Genoese Climate And Geographical Position; of the Ligurian Character; and of the Times into which Catherine was born. Her Family, Father and Mother. — IV. Catherine’s Life, up to the Preliminaries of her Conversion: Autumn 1447-Mid-March 1474. — V. Her Conversion, with its immediate Preliminaries and Consequences, March 1474. — VI. The Two Conceptions concerning the Character and Rationale of her Penitential Period and of her whole Convert Life. The Position adopted here. — VII. Catherine and the Holy Eucharist. — VIII. Catherine and Confession and Direction. — IX. Catherine and Indulgences. — X. Peculiarities concerning the Invocation of Saints and Intercessory Prayer. — CHAPTER IV CATHERINE’S LIFE FROM 1473 TO 1506 AND ITS MAIN CHANGES AND GROWTH — I. First Period of Catherine’s Convert Life: Giuliano’s Bankruptcy and Conversion; their Work among the Poor, March 1473 to May 1477. — II. Catherine and Tommasa Fiesca: their Difference of Character and attrait . Peculiarity of Catherine’s Penitence and Health during this time. — III. Change in the Temper of Catherine’s Penitence, from May 1474 onwards. — IV. Catherine’s Great Fasts. — V. Second, Central Period of Catherine’s Convert Life, 1477-1499: its Special Spiritual Features. — VI. Catherine and Giuliano move into the Hospital in 1479, never again to quit it. She is Matron from 1490 to 1495. — VII. Catherine and the Plague. The Outbreak of 1493. — VIII. Catherine and Ettore Vernazza, 1493-1495. — IX. Catherine’s Health breaks down, 1496; other Events of the Same Year. — X. Events of 1497. — XI. Beginning of her Third, Last Period; End of the Extraordinary Fasts; First Relations with Don Marabotto. — XII. Her Conversations with her Disciples; “Caterina Serafina.” Don Marabotto and the Possessed Maid. — XIII. Catherine’s Sympathy with Animal- and Plant-Life: her Love of the Open Air. Her Deep Self-knowledge as to the Healthiness or Morbidness of her Psycho-Physical States. — XIV. Catherine’s Social Joys and Sorrows, 1501-1507. — CHAPTER V CATHERINE’S LAST FOUR YEARS, 1506 TO 1510—SKETCH OF HER CHARACTER, DOCTRINE, AND SPIRIT — I. Catherine’s External Interests and Activities up to May 1510. Occasional Slight Deviations from her Old Balance. Immensely Close Interconnection of her whole Mental and Psycho-Physical Nature. Impressions as connected with the Five Senses. — II. More or Less Maladif Experiences and Actions. — III. Catherine’s History from May to September 9, 1510. — IV. The Last Six Days of Catherine’s Life, September 10-15. — V. Sketch of Catherine’s Spiritual Character and Significance. — CHAPTER VI CATHERINE’S DOCTRINE — I. God as Creative Love. The Creature’s True and False Self; True and False Love. — II. Sin, Purification, Illumination. — III. The Three Categories and the Two Ways. — IV. The Other Worlds. — CHAPTER VII CATHERINE’S REMAINS AND CULTUS; THE FATE OF HER TWO PRIEST FRIENDS AND OF HER DOMESTICS; AND THE REMAINING HISTORY OF ETTORE VERNAZZA — Introductory. — I. The Burial and the Events immediately surrounding it. September 15 to December 10, 1510. — II. The Different Removals of the Remains, and the Chief Stages of her Official Cultus. — III. The Fate of Catherine’s Priest Friends. — IV. The Fate of Catherine’s Three Maid-Servants. — V. The Two Vernazzas: their Debt to Catherine, and Catherine’s Debt to them. — VI. Ettore Vernazza’s Life, from 1509 to 1512. — VII. Ettore in Rome and Naples; his Second Will; his Work in the Genoese Prisons. — VIII. Ettore again in Naples; his Death in Genoa; Peculiarities of his Posthumous Fame. — CHAPTER VIII BATTISTA VERNAZZA’S LIFE — Introductory. — I. Battista’s Life, from April 1497 to June 1510. — II. Battista and her God-father, Tommaso Moro. — III. Battista’s Colloquies , November 1554 to Ascension-Day 1555. — IV. Some further Letters of Battista, 1575 to 1581. — V. Battista’s Death, 1587.
6. 6.CONCLUSION WHEREIN LIES THE SECRET OF SPIRITUAL PERSUASIVENESS — I. The Question. — II. The Answer.
7. 7.APPENDIX TO PART II CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MATERIALS FOR THE RE-CONSTITUTION OF SAINT CATHERINE’S LIFE AND TEACHING. — Introduction. — I. — II. — First Division: Account and Analysis of the Documents previous, and immediately subsequent to, the “Vita e Dottrina” with the “Dicchiarazione.” — I. First Stage, 1456 to September 12, 1510, all Legal. — II. Second Stage: Five further Official and Legal Documents, 1511-1526; and Four Mortuary Dates, 1524-1587. — III. Third Stage: Bishop Giustiniano’s Account of Catherine’s Life, Remains, and Biography, 1537. — IV. Fourth Stage: The Two Oldest Extant Manuscripts of the “Vita e Dottrina” with the “Dicchiarazione.” — V. Fifth Stage: Manuscript C. — VI. Sixth Stage: First Printed Edition of the “Vita-Dottrina-Dicchiarazione,” 1551; Examination of all it possesses in addition to MSS. A, B and C, apart from the “Dialogo.” — VII. Seventh Stage: The Second “Chapter” of the “Dialogo,” which appears for the First Time in the Printed “Vita,” 1551. — VIII. Seventh Stage continued: Minute Analysis of one Passage from the Second “Chapter.” — IX. Seventh Stage concluded: Character and Authorship of this Second “Chapter.” — Second Division: Analysis, Assignation, and Appraisement of the “Vita-Dottrina-Dicchiarazione” Corpus, in Eight Sections. — I. The “Dicchiarazione”: the Two Stages Of its Existence. — II. The earlier “Dicchiarazione,” and its Theological Glosses. — III. Five Conclusions concerning the History of the “Dicchiarazione.” — IV. The “Vita”-proper, its Divisions and Parts, and Chief Secondary and Authentic Constituents. — V. Age and Authorship of the Literature retained. — VI. Analysis of the Conversion-Narratives. — VII. The Sayings-Passages: Three Tests for discriminating Authentic from Secondary Sayings. — VIII. Conclusion. At least Six Stages in the upbuilding of the Complete Book of 1551. The Slight Changes introduced since then. First claims to Authorship for Catherine.
8. 8.FOOTNOTES

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