Rev Dr Jane Foulcher’s paper “The Kiss of the Kiss: Bernard of Clairvaux and Sarah Coakley on Desire” has recently been published by the esteemed journal Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses.
“For both Bernard and Coakley ascetic practice, especially prayer, underpins the transformation or reordering of desire, and helps guard against the misuse of the charismatic gifts of the Spirit. When graciously drawn into the life of God, desire is liberated from obsessive self-concern and reoriented toward loving concern for the other: God’s desire becomes our desire.”
The article was selected for the six month open access provision on Theology Research News coming out of KT Leuven’s Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies so jump on it quickly!
