In:(Re)presentations and Dialogue
Edited by François Cooren and Alain Létourneau
[Dialogue Studies 16] 2012
► pp. 161–176
On the representation of a dialogue with God
Catherine of Siena and mystical communication
Published online: 23 November 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.16.09dou
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.16.09dou
Mystical dialogue would seem to elude analysis, in that there are no witnesses. Catherine of Siena, a 14th-century Dominican “tertiary”, revealed her mystical experience to her confessor and secretaries, who set down her account and edited The Dialogue of Divine Providence, constructing a representation of the phenomenon based on what she told them. “A soul” (that of Catherine) engages in an exchange with God. He desires a renewal of His Church, and invites the world to take up a dialogue with Him. Is this a case of “ventriloquy”? No. This is God expressing Himself, in dialogue with a mystic. For us, the representation of this dialogue with God contains an “invention of the Other”. Keywords: dialogue; mysticism; Christianity; ventriloquy; communication
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