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From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200.

Publication: Theological Studies
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200.(Book review)

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FROM JUDGMENT TO PASSION: DEVOTION TO CHRIST AND THE VIRGIN MARY, 800-1200. By Rachel Fulton. New York: Columbia University, 2002. Pp. xvi + 676. $47.50.

Peter Damian, the eleventh-century church reformer, was a tortured man. Bewailing the "innumerable chains of sins" with which he felt bound, he confessed his exceeding misery and unhappiness. Even more unhappy and conscience-stricken was his fellow ascetic, Dominic, who performed feats of self-inflicted abuse that were the envy of the most dedicated self-flagellants, Peter included.

The fiercely punishing asceticism of these monks expressed what Rachel Fulton terms "affective devotion" to Christ crucified. Skeptics may doubt that such self-abuse comes properly under the rubric of devotion. F. argues that it does, and she takes what she terms the "hermeneutical leap" in textual interpretation to show that mere texts of prayers and biblical commentaries can demonstrate that medieval devotional development can be read as...

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