Santa Gertrudis: a mystical theologian

St. Gertrude is situated in the turning point when traditional unity between theology and spiritual life is beginning to weaken. Contemporary as she is to the development of scholasticism, she belongs, however, to monastic world, where integration between life and theology is cultivated and defended...

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Veröffentlicht in:Teoliterária 2013, Vol.3 (6), p.140-185
1. Verfasser: Forastieri, Ana Laura
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:St. Gertrude is situated in the turning point when traditional unity between theology and spiritual life is beginning to weaken. Contemporary as she is to the development of scholasticism, she belongs, however, to monastic world, where integration between life and theology is cultivated and defended. Her life is presented before us as one where the theological goal underlying every Christian life is fulfilled: vital understanding of mystery by an experience of intimate communion with the divine. Her teaching illuminates the core of faith from the sources of Liturgy, Revelation and Patristic tradition, assimilated through her spiritual experience. This teaching is expressed in the originality and theological accuracy of her visions and prayers poured into an affective and symbolic language, in the balance of her spiritual doctrine and in her deep ecclesial sense. Her experience constitutes a dogmatic, ecclesial and spousal mystic, whose universality and actuality makes it suitable and attractive both to believers and unbelievers of our days. Santa Gertrudis se ubica en el punto de inflexión en que la unidad tradicional entre teología y vida espiritual comienza a debilitarse. Contemporánea al desarrollo de la escolástica, pertenece sin embargo al mundo monástico, donde la integración entre la vida y la teología, se cultiva y se defiende. Su vida se nos presenta como la de aquélla en quien se cumple la finalidad teológica que subyace a toda vida cristiana: la comprensión vital del misterio por la experiencia de íntima comunión con lo divino. Su doctrina ilumina el núcleo de la fe a partir de las fuentes de la liturgia, la revelación y la tradición patrística, asimiladas a través de su experiencia espiritual. Esta se expresa en la originalidad y precisión teológica de sus visiones y oraciones, vertidas en un lenguaje afectivo y simbólico, en el equilibrio de su doctrina espiritual y en su hondo sentido de Iglesia. Su experiencia constituye una mística dogmática, eclesial y esponsal, cuya universalidad y actualidad la hacen apta y atractiva al público creyente y no creyente de hoy.
ISSN:2236-9937