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Furnal, Joshua (2026) Contemporaneity with Christ: Cornelio Fabro’s Kierkegaardian Approach to the Mystical Writings of St. Gemma Galgani. In: Kierkegaard and Mysticism: Reception, Influence, Resonance. Routledge, New York, pp. 185-198. ISBN 9781040428498
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Abstract
The Italian priest-philosopher and Kierkegaard scholar Fr. Cornelio Fabro (1911–1995) published a monograph on the mystical experiences of Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), and interpreted Gemma’s testimony using a Kierkegaardian motif. This chapter shows that for Fabro, Kierkegaard’s notion of “contemporaneity with Christ” (i) in general, can be given content with the lives of the saints as concrete examples of the intensification of Christian existence; and (ii) in particular, can be used as an interpretive lens to make sense of Gemma Galgani’s mystical experience of the stigmata as supernatural testimony.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Keywords: | Contemporaneity; Christ; Cornelio Fabro; Kierkegaardian; Mystical Writings; St Gemma Galgani; |
| Academic Unit: | St Patrick's College, Maynooth > Faculty of Theology |
| Item ID: | 20642 |
| Depositing User: | Joshua Furnal |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2025 12:05 |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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