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Nicolas Caussin's “Spirituality of Communication“: A Meeting of Divine and Human Speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephen F. Campbell S.J.
Stephen F. Campbell S.J.*
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Spring Hill College
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That which is uttered with the mouth of the flesh is the articulate sound of the word… . For our word is so made in some way into an articulate sound of the body … as the Word of God was made flesh.

Augustine

The Following Essay is Presented as a sketch of some significant features of Christian humanism which relate to language and discourse in France during the first half of the seventeenth century. Its central intent is to testify to the early Jesuit conviction that the manifestation of God in the world is profound. And this belief and emphasis on the ability to discover and rediscover God in the world, in its past and present, both nourished and was nourished by the Society of Jesus's involvement in humanism.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , Spring 1993 , pp. 44 - 70
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1993

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