The beginning of the developmentof "modern ego" in the Christian spirituality of the 14th century Europe

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580016
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Notre Dame Seishin University
• Principal Investigator: SUZAWA KAORI ノートルダム清心女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (50171195)
• Research Collaborator: Andreas Uwe Müller ミュンスター大学, 神学部, 教授 ; Neudecker reinhard 教皇庁立聖書研究所, 聖書学部, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: キリスト教霊性 / 近代的自我の形成 / 中世と近代のあいだ / 宗教生活の個人化、実存化 / 中世と近代の連続性 / 聖母マリアへの信心の影響 / 聖母マリアの出現 / ヨーロッパのキリスト教霊性の根幹

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research deals with the beginning of the development of a modern ego seen in the Christian spirituality at the end of the 14th century. In the late Middle Ages spirituality, the tendency of internalization and existentialism have been emphasized. In the transition from late 14th century to modern period a personal experience has been given more existentially and personally. In the spirituality of the Rhine region of Germany, Flemish spirituality and Spanish mysticism, we meet the transition from the Middle ages to the modern period and its development of modern self-consciousness (ego). In addition, we examined the texts on the apparitions of Mary and the devotion to Our Lady, which play an important role in the development of the modern ego.

Free Research Field

宗教哲学、キリスト教霊性、神秘思想、キリスト教思想史、宗教思想