Taciturnidade e silêncio: para a história do silêncio monástico

• Autor(a) principal: Matoso, José
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2009.1897

Silence at the same time contemplative and affective cultivated in Western monastic circles seems to have been born among the Cluniacs (specifically with Abbot Odo, 927-942), and to have followed a tradition that was transmitted through William of St. Thierry and of Aelred of Rievaulx (both connected with Cistercian spirituality), through the second or third generation of Carthusians, and finally through Meister Eckhart and his disciple Johann Tauler. In the origins of Eastern and Western monasticism it was particularly its ascetic form that was highly regarded. The mystical tradition derived from apophatic theology inspired in the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite led to a great many mystical works, particularly from the authors of St. Victor of Paris and their successors, but it was considered too speculative by more accessible monastic authors such as that of The Cloud of Unknowing and Tauler himself.