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• The Mystical Suspension

  H. Oliva

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (2), 1

  
  

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  Mistical suspension, silence, time, absolute, ontology, ineffability, aletheiaIn the mystical ecstasy there is a sensorial and intellectual suspension when contemplating the absolute, the ontological Being. Silence is not only significant: it is revealing. The greatest expression of experience inner silence . The word is insufficient when the ontological reality is revealed. Revelation or truth , the Greek concept of aletheia, takes on greater significance in that transcendental experience. It is also suspended phenomenological time and remains eternity open.

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  Mistical suspension, silence, time, absolute, ontology, ineffability, aletheiaIn the mystical ecstasy there is a sensorial and intellectual suspension when contemplating the [...]

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• Santa Teresa Relics: the Letter Preserved in the Convent of the Carmelitas Descalzas of Lima

  M. Recoba

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (2), 1

  
  

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  The purpose of this article is to present the letter signed by Santa Teresa de Jesús donated by the Bishop of Arequipa, Don Agustín Ugarte and Sarabia, for the foundation of the convent in 1643. This card will enable us to reflect on the role of relics in the Catholic world.

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  The purpose of this article is to present the letter signed by Santa Teresa de Jesús donated by the Bishop of Arequipa, Don Agustín Ugarte and Sarabia, for the foundation [...]

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• Political-Philosophical Perspectives about the Notions of Indian, Inca, and Mestizo on the «Comentarios reales de los Incas»

  A. Espinosa

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (2), 1

  
  

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  This essay posits certain political-philosophical perspectives on the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Primera parte de los Comentarios reales de los Incas (1609). To this purpose we will develop two hermeneutical movements. The first refers to a theoretical and methodological questioning related to the notion of Indian as a discursive construction during colonial times in the Andes area. The second deploys a critical exercise grounded on the interaction between the notions of Indian, Inca, and Mestizo, which is focused on how they build alternative subjectivities. Both movements consolidate an interpretation about the Inca Garcilaso’s political-philosophical reflections, remarking his proposals of a bifurcated modern civilizational project in the New World.

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  This essay posits certain political-philosophical perspectives on the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Primera parte de los Comentarios reales de los Incas (1609). To this purpose [...]

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• The Symbol of the Labyrinth in «Las moradas del castillo interior», by santa Teresa de Jesús

  I. Morata

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (2), 1

  
  

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  The castle of Las moradas, by santa Teresa, has attracted the attention of scholars, who have tried to guess its sources. Also some artists have been interested on it and have made graphical representations. This article analyses the mystical castle of santa Teresa as a labyrinth, a symbol with different meanings, specially in occidental culture. This allegorical building presents some of the most important characteristics of the labyrinths, specifically those ones with a only path: the significance of the centre, the difficulty of the access to it and the transformation of the walker —in this case, the human soul— until the achievement of his goal, the union with God.

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  The castle of Las moradas, by santa Teresa, has attracted the attention of scholars, who have tried to guess its sources. Also some artists have been interested on it and [...]

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• Architecture for a Charism: Discalced Carmelites and Designers of the Order in Spain

  M. Castilla

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (2), 1

  
  

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  The convent architecture of the Teresian Carmel developed over the centuries of the Early Modern Time (XVI-XVIII) was designed by friars of the Order, as brother Alberto de la Madre de Dios (1575-1635) or brother Alonso de San José (1600-1654). They used architectural models following the Carmelite charisma, regulations and purpose of the Order and under the assumptions of poverty, austerity, functionality and economy of means. Convents that were inserted into the existing urban planning of cities, and in some cases they even modified it, as the Discalced Carmelites complex of Pamplona (1640-1672) exemplifies. Buildings that through the distribution of space show the new style of life of Teresa, as the designs drawn in 1767 by brother José de San Juan de la Cruz for the Navarre nunnery of Lesaca reflect.

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  The convent architecture of the Teresian Carmel developed over the centuries of the Early Modern Time (XVI-XVIII) was designed by friars of the Order, as brother Alberto de [...]

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• Images and Experiences of Viceroyalties’ Frontiers: Propositions for Re-readings of the Missionary World and Its Times through Explorations Log-books, Edifying Letters and Personal Correspondence

  M. Bobić

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  In this paper we propose a re-reading of three types of texts in which the 17th and 18th century Jesuit missionaries in the New World described their experiences as missionaries as well as explorers, but also their personal views and feelings. We expect that such re-readings of their testimonies of the work and life in the missions would help build a richer and more complex image of the missionary life than that based on the grand narrative.

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  In this paper we propose a re-reading of three types of texts in which the 17th and 18th century Jesuit missionaries in the New World described their experiences as missionaries [...]

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• News about Alonso González de Nájera and the Edition of «Desengaño y reparo de la guerra del Reino de Chile» (1614)

  M. Rodríguez

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  This article is a preview to the critical edition and annotated text of Desengaño y reparo de la guerra del reino de Chile (1614), by Alonso González de Nájera. Not only the few known facts about the authorʼs life are reviewed: there is also new biographical information about him and his family, such as his birth certificate, which shows that he was born in Cuenca in 1556. Similarly, some relevant discoveries which respect to the publication of the text are presented. As for the preliminary study that will accompany the edition, its main guidelines are described: the attempt to understand the author and his text in the European context of the Pax Hispánica promoted by Felipe III, as expressed in the «Guerra defensiva»ˮ strategy that it was developed and implemented by the Jesuits in Chileʼs territory; also aims to define the typology of this unclassifiable text, focusing in its «arbitristas»ˮ features, with two important dimensions to be considered: on the one hand, the call to desengaño (it is necessary to unveil the truth about the war against Mapuches); on the other, as it proposes specific solutions, the reparo or remedy dimension (war can be won if appropriate measures are taken).

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  This article is a preview to the critical edition and annotated text of Desengaño y reparo de la guerra del reino de Chile (1614), by Alonso González de Nájera. Not only [...]

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• Mysticism, Psychiatry, and Myth: Surveying a Hundred Years of Theresianism in Spain (1861-1963)

  V. Ruiz

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (2), 1

  
  

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  This selective survey of the studies on Saint Theresa in Spain between 1861 and 1963 focuses on how and why this saint proved so acceptable to non-Catholic quarters, and could even portray values opposite to that tradition. Two main instances: Américo Castro makes it necessary to approach her writings strictly as literary texts. A rejoinder to Francoism by novelist Ramón J. Sender in 1963 makes saint Theresa a concealed opponent of king Philip II and the traditional Spain.

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  This selective survey of the studies on Saint Theresa in Spain between 1861 and 1963 focuses on how and why this saint proved so acceptable to non-Catholic quarters, and could [...]

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• Santa Teresa of Jesus as Example for the Novo Hispanic Mystics. The Work of Alonso Ramos about Catarina de San Juan

  G. Wobeser

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (2), 1

  
  

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  The life and work of Santa Teresa of Jesus had a great influence on the New Spain spiritual atmosphere by enabling a more intimate and direct relationship of women with God and contribute to the proliferation of nuns and beatified. In the Wonders of the Omnipotence and Miracles of the Grace in the life of the Venerable Servant of God Catharina of San Joan, Alonso Ramos writes the biography of Catarina of San Juan, a free slave considered saint, to whom in many passages compares with Santa Teresa. The purpose of Ramos was to create a female life model based on Teresian spirituality and values.

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  The life and work of Santa Teresa of Jesus had a great influence on the New Spain spiritual atmosphere by enabling a more intimate and direct relationship of women with God [...]

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• «Obra toda tejida de una admirable variedad de cosas»: the ekphrasis in «El Bernardo» of Balbuena

  M. López

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  The ekphrasis has attracted the recent literary criticism as a key for poetic interpretation. We will check her particular presence in El Bernardo of Balbuena, noted by Frank Pierce, together with La Araucana and La Cristíada, as one of the three great Spanish epic poems. In this baroque poem, the ekphrasis will achieve the greater development in the genre becoming a major articulator of the text. Being a sample of a literary period where the action, the narrative progress, loses relevance in favor to other literary elements, as the descriptive.

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  The ekphrasis has attracted the recent literary criticism as a key for poetic interpretation. We will check her particular presence in El Bernardo of Balbuena, noted by Frank [...]

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