By Michael Martin
In The Submerged truth: Sophiology and the flip to a Poetic Metaphysics, Michael Martin demanding situations us to reimagine theology, philosophy, and poetics in the course of the lens of sophiology. Sophiology, as this publication exhibits, isn't really a rogue theology, yet a fashion of perceiving that which shines during the cosmos: a manner which can go back metaphysics to postmodern inspiration and facilitate a (re)union of faith, technological know-how, and artwork.
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Whatever you fix upon, that is not it. ”21 There are some truths we can apprehend only by releasing our claims to them. But the biggest problem resulting from Aristotelian/Scholastic attempts to refine the definition of the Eucharist, however, was that—initially in the Latin West (particularly in Protestantism), but eventually also at a global level—God’s transcendence became emphasized at the expense of his immanence so much so that the question of God’s presence in the created world—let alone the Eucharist—became a matter of privately-held opinion, a mere interpretation or even a political position, but not at all a shared cultural value.
Psalmus CXVII, i Acknowledgements PUTTING THIS BOOK together has been nothing short of miraculous. From the time John Riess, publisher of Angelico Press (to whom I owe much gratitude), invited me to submit a proposal in summer of 2013 to the act of writing these acknowledgements, the process has, at every turn, revealed previously unknown connections, initiated beautiful new friendships, and fostered the growing awareness that this was a book I was meant to write. I have many people to thank.
This was the case with Jacob Boehme, Jane Lead, Robert Fludd, and Sergius Bulgakov, for example, who were all noted for their kindness, magnanimity, and, even, saintliness. On the other hand, their respective sophiologies have often brought out the worst in their critics and continue to do so. I expect no less from this book. This book is not a cultural history of Sophia. Even though, as a poet, I find the Gnostic mythos of Sophia and her metaphysical kidnapping a fascinating story, to be honest, the theologians and critics who tend to view anything remotely sophiological as flirting with the “Gnostic heresy” bore me.