The seduction of the word. The biblical humanism of Hipólita de Jesús in the Spanish Golden Age

• Maria Laura Giordano ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Abat Oliba CEU

     Universitat Abat Oliba CEU

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Multidisciplinary journal of school education, ISSN-e 2543-8409, ISSN 2543-7585, Vol. 13, Nº. 1, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The central role of narration in education), págs. 89-105
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this study, I deal with the case of a most unusual nun, whose life mission was to spread the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in vernacular languages during the Counter Reformation period. This nun, Hipólita deJesús, was born in Catalonia (Spain) in 1551 and spent all her life in a Dominican monastery in Barcelona, where she died in 1624. As is well known, the Index librorum prohibitorum did not allow the reading of the Bible in any form except for the Latin version of Saint Jerome. Despite this prohibition, she wrote more than twenty treatises. In them, she constructed a discourse about the Bible, and its spiritual and moral contents. Her method of teaching and living Christianity, based on direct contact with the sources of the Catholic faith as well as on Pauline thinking, made her one of the most outstanding cases of biblical Humanism of the Golden Age. However, until now, she has remained almost unknown.