Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality
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Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality

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Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality

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Hailed in Sacred Scripture as the "beginning of wisdom" (Ps 111:10), the "fear of the Lord" is seldom mentioned and little understood today. A gift of the Spirit and a moral virtue or disposition, the "fear of the Lord" also frequently entails emotional experiences of differing kinds: compunction, dread, reverence, wonderment, and awe. Starting with the Bible itself, this collection of seventeen essays explores the place of holy fear in Christian spirituality from the early church to the present and argues that this fear is paradoxically linked in various ways to fear's seeming opposite, love. Indeed, the charged dynamic of love and fear accounts for different experiences and expressions of Christian life in response to changing historical circumstances and events.

The writings of the theologians, mystics, philosophers, saints, and artists studied here reveal the relationship between the fear and the love of God to be profoundly challenging and mysterious, its elements paradoxically conjoined in a creative tension with each other, but also tending to oscillate back-and-forth in the history of Christian spirituality as first one, then the other, comes to the fore, sometimes to correct a perceived imbalance, sometimes at the risk of losing its companion altogether. Given this historical pattern, clearly evident in these chronologically arranged essays, the palpable absence of a discourse of holy fear from the mainstream theological landscape should give us pause and invite us to consider if and how—under what aspect, in which contexts—a holy fear, inseparable from love, might be regained or discovered anew within Christian spirituality as a remedy both for a crippling anxiety and for a presumptive recklessness. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Christian spirituality, theology, biblical studies, religious studies, and religion and literature.

Contributors: Ann W. Astell, Pieter G. R. de Villiers, Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard, John Sehorn, Catherine Rose Cavadini, Joseph Wawrykow, Robert Boenig, Ralph Keen, Wendy M. Wright, Ephraim Radner, Julia A. Lamm, Cyril O'Regan, Brenna Moore, Maj-Britt Frenze, and Todd Walatka

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INDEX
Abbey of the Holy Ghost, The, 150
Abraham, 52n.90
Acts
2:3, 28
2:6, 28
2:12, 28
2:37, 50n.70
2:40, 35
2:42–43, 38
2:42–47, 38
2:43, 38, 50n.70
2:47, 38
3:1–10, 38
3:10, 38, 50n.70
3:15, 121n.27
5:1–9, 32
5:5, 32, 50n.70, 52n.88
5:11, 4, 32, 50n.70, 52n.88
5:26, 24
5:27–40, 44n.22
5:33, 50n.70
7:32, 28
7:54, 50n.70
9:3–4, 28
9:4, 50n.72
9:5, 28
9:26, 44n.23
9:31, 38
10:2, 45n.26, 50n.70
10:4, 28
10:22, 45n.26
10:25, 45n.26
10:25–26, 50n.67
10:26, 29
10:31, 38
10:35, 38
12:46–47, 32
13:16, 21, 38, 52n.91
13:26, 21, 52n.91
14:8–10, 48n.46
14:15, 29
14:15–17, 29
17:23–31, 29
17:24–28, 29
19:17, 50n.70
22:7, 28
22:8, 28
27:24, 35
27:29, 44n.24
27:30–31, 35
chapter 22, 111
Alleine, R. A., Godly-Fear, 8, 328n.31
Almeida, Avelino de, 317
Ambrose, St., 151
Amos 3:8, 44n.24
Anabaptists, 175
Andrewes, Lancelot, 260, 265
Anselm, St., 192
Anthony of Egypt, 333
Apocalypse of Paul, 25
Apocalypse of Zephaniah, 45n.29
apocalypticism, 11–13, 334–39
Sobrino on apocalyptic vision of history, 366–67, 371, 377n.48
See also Rapture movement
Apostoli, Fr. Andrew, 324, 328n.39, 329n.53, 330n.67, 330n.74, 331n.77
Apostolic Constitutions, 54
Aquinas, Thomas, 6, 94, 191, 192,
249
on beatific vision, 137
on the beatitudes, 132
on charity, 129–31, 134, 143
on Christ as savior, 7, 134–35, 146n.8
on Christ’s fear, 7, 125, 126–27, 135, 136, 142–45
on Christ’s grace, 134, 135, 136–37, 139, 143, 145
on Christ’s hope, 136, 137–40, 141, 142–43
on Christ’s trust in God, 125, 138–40, 141, 142
Commentary on Hebrews, 125, 139–40, 141, 142
Commentary on the Psalms, 125, 140–42
on faith, 130, 131, 137–38
on fear as gift of Holy Spirit, 7, 126–27, 131–32, 135, 136, 142–45
on fear as passion of the soul, 7, 126–29, 135–36, 144, 145
on gifts of Holy Spirit, 126–27, 130–32, 134, 135, 136, 146n.11, 137, 142–45
on habitual grace, 129–31, 134, 136–37, 146n.11
on hope, 126, 130, 131–32, 136, 137–40, 141, 142–43
on human self and God as end, 127–28, 129–32
incarnational Christology of, 7, 126–27, 133–35, 141
on propassion vs. passion, 147n.24
on sin, 128, 129, 130, 135, 142, 355
Summa theologiae, 125, 126–38, 141, 142–45
Aristotle on fear, 45n.31
Arius, 49n.62, 73n.38
Arnauld, Antoine, 209, 211
Arnold, Matthew, 280n.18
Augustine, St., 9, 151, 191, 210, 277, 391n.39
The Advantage of Believing, 99n.74
Answer to Faustus a Manichaean, 99n.75
on charity, 5, 77–78, 83, 84–85, 86, 91–92, 94
on chaste fear, 5, 76–78, 80–81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 91–92, 94–95, 96n.3, 99n.74, 212–14, 220
Confessions, 100n.77
divine wrath in City of God, 174
Exposition of Psalm 18, 76, 96n.3
Exposition of Psalm 30 (second), 89–90
Exposition of Psalm 118, 83, 97n.38
Exposition of Psalm 119, 88
on fear and Jesus Christ, 79–80, 97n.19
on fear as gift of the Spirit, 87–89, 91
fear in City of God, 78–81, 82, 94, 97n.16
fear in Nature and Grace, 81
on grace of God, 210, 213, 215–16, 226n.31, 249, 250
Homilies on First John, 85–86, 86–87
on hope, 89–90
on human emotions and love, 78–79, 82
on the Incarnation, 77, 78, 79–80, 85–95
Instructing Beginners in the Faith, 83, 85, ...

Table of contents

  1. Halftitle
  2. Title
  3. Copyrights
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. “In Awe of the Mighty Deeds of God”: The Fear of God in Early Christianity from the Perspective of Biblical Spirituality - Pieter G. R. de Villiers
  9. Cyril of Jerusalem on Learning the Proper Type of Fear of God - Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard
  10. Threading the Needle: Fear of the Lord and the Incarnation in St. Augustine - John Sehorn
  11. Lips of Fear Kissed by Mercy: Expositions of Timor Dei in Cistercian Commentary on the Song of Songs - Catherine Rose Cavadini
  12. Aquinas on Christ’s Fear - Joseph Wawrykow
  13. Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God and the Nuancing of the Fear of the Lord - Robert Boenig
  14. The Reformation Recovery of the Wrath of God - Ralph Keen
  15. The Doctor of Divine Love and Fear of the Lord - Wendy M. Wright
  16. Fear of God in Pascal and His Jansenist Friends - Ephraim Radner
  17. Casting out Fear: The Logic of “God is Love” in Julian of Norwich and Friedrich Schleiermacher - Julia A. Lamm
  18. Fear of God in John Henry Newman and Søren 258 Kierkegaard - Cyril O’Regan
  19. “Gold Fillings into Crocodiles’ Teeth”: Christian Fear, Politics, and Imagination in Léon Bloy (1846–1917) - Brenna Moore
  20. Faith, Hope, Charity, and the Fears of Fatima - Ann W. Astell
  21. Shocked to Awe: The Rapture Hermeneutic and Holy Fear - Maj-Britt Frenze
  22. Fear of God in Liberation Theology - Todd Walatka
  23. A Concluding Case Study in Spiritual Direction: Father Joseph Kentenich (1885−1968) and Emilie Engel (1893−1955) - Ann W. Astell
  24. Contributors
  25. Index