Christian Solar Symbolism and Jesus the Sun of Justice 1st Edition by Kevin Duffy ISBN 0567700119 9780567700117

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ISBN 10: 0567700119

ISBN 13: 9780567700117

Author:  Kevin Duffy 

Christian Solar Symbolism and Jesus the Sun of Justice 1st Edition: This pioneering study of Christian sun symbolism describes how biblical light motifs were taken up with energy in the early Church. Kevin Duffy argues that, living in a world of 24/7 illumination, we need to reconnect with the sun and its light to appreciate the meaning of light in the Bible and Christian tradition. With such a retrieval we can appreciate Pope Francis’s insistence that, like the moon, the Church does not shine with its own light, and assess the claim that the Eucharist is to be celebrated ‘Ad Orientem’, that is towards the rising sun in the East. Liturgy, architecture, poetry and the writings of saints and theologians such as Augustine, Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, and Thomas Traherne offer abundant resources for a much needed ressourcement. While Christ was preached as the True Sun among sun-worshipping Aztecs, and the consecrated host was placed in a solar monstrance on Baroque altars, in the modern era solar themes have been neglected. In this accessible work, the author suggests that we rebalance a spiritual symbolism that has over-emphasised darkness and cloud at the expense of light and sun. He proposes a creative retrieval of the traditional title of Christ as the Sun of Justice. This title blends the personal, the social and the cosmic/ecological, and speaks powerfully to a secularising era that contemporaries Friedrich Nietzsche and Thérèse of Lisieux both described as one where the sun does not shine.

 

Christian Solar Symbolism and Jesus the Sun of Justice 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Retrieval

1. Chapter 1: Scripture

   • Light and Darkness
   • The Light of the Sun
   • Two Varieties of Darkness
   • God and the Sun
   • Sun Worship
   • Yahweh and Solar Motifs
   • The Sun of Justice (Malachi 4.2)
   • Sun and Justice
   • Justice and Healing
   • Christ, Light, and Sun
   • A Light Shining in the Darkness
   • Christ the Rising Sun
   • The Shining Face of Christ
   • Beyond the Sun
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

2. Chapter 2: The Early Church

   • Christian Solar Motifs
   • Jesus Christ and the Sun
   • Rhythms of Daily Prayer
   • Solar Themes and Inculturation
   • Christ as a Ray of Sunlight?
   • The Sun Metaphor and the Divinity of Christ
   • The Egyptian Connection: Alexandria
   • The Physiologus
   • Clement of Alexandria
   • Origen
   • Constantine and the Sun
   • The Emperor and the Unconquered Sun
   • The Day of the Sun
   • The Cult of Mithras/Sol
   • Visual Culture after Constantine
   • Christ as a Solar Emperor?
   • Art and Architecture
   • Early Church Light
   • Two Theologians of Good Darkness
   • Gregory of Nyssa
   • Dionysius the Areopagite
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

3. Chapter 3: The Latin West

   • Ambrose
   • Augustine
   • Solar Metaphors
   • His Rejection of Manicheism
   • An Interior Light
   • Light Rather Than Sun
   • Eucherius
   • Leo the Great
   • Fighting Manicheism
   • A Warning to Christians
   • A Fading Interest in the Cosmos
   • Gregory the Great
   • Contemplation and the Sun
   • Chinks of Light
   • ‘A Distant Region of the World’: Insular Christianity
   • Two Romano-Britons: Patrick and Gildas
   • High Crosses
   • Irish Light
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

4. Chapter 4: The Middle Ages

   • Light and Its Symbolism
   • Solar Symbolism
   • The Study of Physical Light
   • Medieval Church Light
   • Architecture and Light
   • Ornate Style
   • Plain Style
   • Three German Women
   • Hildegard of Bingen
   • Mechthild of Magdeburg
   • Gertrude the Great of Helfta
   • Francis of Assisi
   • The Canticle of Brother Sun
   • Creator and Creation
   • A Call to Conversion and Praise
   • Thomas Aquinas
   • Transmitting Solar Tradition
   • Downgrading Metaphor
   • The Language of Light
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

5. Chapter 5: Into the Modern Era

   • The Birth of the Modern Era
   • Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment
   • Renaissance and Reformation
   • Tommaso Campanella
   • The Rise of Modern Science
   • Christian Solar Symbolism in a New Era
   • New Devotional Possibilities
   • Pierre de Bérulle
   • The Society of Jesus and a Modern Solar Emblem
   • Sun and Eucharist
   • Solar Symbolism in the New World
   • An Aztec Solar Christ
   • The ‘Sacramented Sun’
   • The Virgin of Guadalupe
   • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
   • John of the Cross and the Discovery of Night
   • A Cultural Shift
   • A Poet of the Night
   • Night and Sun
   • Thomas Traherne
   • A Theological Aesthetic
   • ‘Things Strange Yet Common’
   • Solar Practices
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

Part II: Revival
6. Chapter 6: Reviving Solar Symbolism

• Towards a Natural Theology of Sunlight
• Reading the Book of Nature
• Natural Theology
• East and West
• A Church Breathing with Two Lungs
• A Recent Work in the Western Tradition
• Sense Experience and Spiritual Perception
• ‘Spiritual Senses’
• Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Idolatry and the Esoteric
• Metaphors of Light and Sun
• Light and Darkness
• An Interior Sun
• How Metaphor Works
• An Illuminating Fiction
• Meaning and Truth
• A Different Logic
• Plasticity and Discipline
• Conclusion
• Notes

7. Chapter 7: Resources for Recasting

   • Science and Technology: Challenges and Opportunities
   • Astronomy
   • Chronobiology
   • Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
   • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
   • Pope Benedict XVI
   • Theology of Light: Joseph Ratzinger
   • Pope Benedict
   • Pope Francis
   • Laudato sí: Sir Brother Sun
   • The Book of Nature
   • The Sun Shines in the City: Carlos María Galli
   • A Selection of Hymns: Ancient and Modern
   • George Matheson
   • ‘Dayspring of Eternity’
   • Catholics and Pagans
   • Carthusian Monks
   • Thomas Merton (1915–68)
   • Paul Murray (1947–)
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

8. Chapter 8: Sacred Direction: Are Christians to Pray Towards the Sun?

   • Varieties of Sacred Direction
   • Ad orientem
   • The Direction of Graves
   • Praying Upwards
   • Oriented Prayer
   • The Early Church
   • The Western Church
   • Orientation in Liturgy and Church Buildings
   • The Early Church
   • The Middle Ages and Beyond
   • An Unstable Symbolism
   • Solar Metaphors and Interiority
   • The Western Church
   • The Eastern Church
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

9. Chapter 9: Light, Sun, and Liturgy

   • The Incarnation
   • Epiphany: A Feast of Light
   • Christmas and the Winter Solstice
   • The Paschal Mystery
   • Baptism
   • Good Friday
   • Holy Saturday
   • Easter
   • Light and Sun in the Current Liturgy
   • The Roman Missal
   • The Liturgy of the Hours
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

10. Chapter 10: Jesus the Sun of Justice in a Sunless Age

    • A Sunless Age
    • Friedrich Nietzsche and Thérèse of Lisieux
    • Philip Larkin
    • ‘A Wintry Season’
    • The Sun of Justice
    • Dusk and Dawn
    • Jesus and the Sun
    • Holistic Justice
    • Justice in the Church
    • Restoring Cosmic Order
    • Healing and Conversion
    • Conclusion
    • Notes

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