Jacques Maritain on the Mystic-Poet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21363503 |
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| Authors | Anthony Richard Haynes (0000-0002-0100-9651, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 1098 |
| Pages | 239-256 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Blackfriars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4289 • E-ISSN: 1741-2005 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nbfr.12518 |
| OpenAlex | W2991572901 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
I examine Jacques Maritain's assertion that his godfather, the Catholic writer Léon Bloy, was both an artist and a mystic, capable of reaching the heights of mystical contemplation of God. First examining this assertion in light of Maritain's mystical theology and philosophy of creativity, I show that a conventional reading of their operative principles renders mystical experience and artistic experience essentially different in their respective modes and objects of knowledge. Drawing on Maritain's personal reflections on Bloy and recent developments in Maritain scholarship, however, I then make the case that by virtue of relatively unexplored elements in Maritain's testimony and theoretical principles, the Christian artist can also have the experience of the Christian mystic when they direct their work to the mysteries of the Christian faith. I call this convergence ‘Infused-Poetic Contemplation’
Aesthetics · Art · Assertion · Contemplation · Creativity · Faith · Literature · Mysticism · Poetry · Scholarship · Theology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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