Modern Mystics: Dorothee Sölle course
The third session, on 6th October, will be led by Dr Sue Yore on the political and liberation theologian, Dorothee Sölle.
Sölle wrote widely, including her 2001 The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance. She is often considered a postmodern mystical writer and someone who both continued and adapted the traditional mystical theological claims.
With Dr Sue Yore, Senior Lecturer in Theology at York St John University. She is an expert on postmodern mysticism and its relationship to literature, publishing her Mystic Way in Postmodernity with Peter Lang Press in 2008. One of Yore’s major conversation partners in that book is Dorothee Sölle, a figure on whom Yore continues to research and publish.
About the series
We often think that mysticism is a thing of the past, that the great mystics like Francis of Assisi, Julian of Norwich or Teresa of Avila are resigned to times long gone, and that mysticism died in the Reformations, the Enlightenment, or the Quietist Controversy.
However, there are important mystical elements of all major world religions today including Christianity, and many 20th-, and 21st-century figures exemplify mysticism. Although in different ways, our three mystics show that mysticism should not be divorced between politics, action and social justice. Join us to see how this played out in their lives and writings.
In our fourth series of webinars on Modern Mystics, we are excited to look at three major figures of the 20th century (stretching slightly into the two adjacent centuries). Each webinar will be led by an expert on the mystic in question, and will consist of a 50-minute introductory lecture on that figure and their mystical writings. After a quick break we will have 30 minutes for Q&A with our expert. Each webinar runs from 7:30-9 PM (UK time) on Zoom on a Monday evening.
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