The Submerged Reality · Sophiology and the Turn to a Poetic Metaphysics by Martin, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS Dedication Page Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: The Call of Beauty

Confusions of Semantics, Power, Politics The Call of Beauty

1 • The Repercussions of a Left-Brain Theology

A Rage for Rationality The Eucharist Natura Pura A Secular Gnosticism: René Descartes and the Scientific Revolution The Repercussions of a Left-Brain Theology

2 • Jacob Boehme’s Sophianic Intuitions

Sophia and the Language of Wisdom An Anthropological Cosmology and a Cosmological Anthropology

3 • Dei Gloria Intacta: The Wisdom of God in Robert Fludd’s Mystical Philosophy

The Rosicrucian Phenomenon Robert Fludd and the Rosy Cross in England Dei Gloria Intacta: Sophia (Wisdom) in Fludd’s Published Work “I was with him forming all things”: Sophia’s Role according to Fludd Who (or What) is Fludd’s Sophia? Sophia in Truth’s Golden Harrow

4 • The Noble Failure of Romanticism & Rudolf Steiner's Sophianic Epistemology

Romanticism Romantic Natura: Goethe’s Union of Poetry, Science, and Religion Romantic Episteme: Novalis’s Marian Intuitions Christianity or Europe Hymns to the Night The Noble Failure Rudolf Steiner’s Sophiology

5 • Russian Sophiology: Poetics and the Agon with Reason

A Sophianic Seedbed Vladimir Solovyov Pavel Florensky Sergius Bulgakov

6 • Catholic Sophiology: The Submerged Reality

The Turn Toward a (Post)Modern Catholic Sophiology Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s “The Eternal Feminine” Thomas Merton and Sophiology Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Half-Submerged Sophiology Valentin Tomberg and the Return of Esoteric Catholicism The Submerged Reality

Conclusion: Towards a Poetic Metaphysics Bibliography