Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to examine depictions of interior peace, as well as exterior peacemaking in the world, in representative works by Ramon Llull, written during the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. I will show how Llull’s goal of ending conflict involved interreligious dialogue and an attitude of intellectual openness, but at the same time advocated problematic efforts to proselytize religious others that were to be backed up by military force. While the writer’s conceptualization of inner, spiritual combat and peacemaking draws on a number of Christian conventions, we will see how it can also be fruitfully compared to Islamic traditions.
Highlights
The purpose of this essay is to examine depictions of interior peace, as well as exterior peacemaking in the world, in representative works by Ramon Llull, written during the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries
As Tomaž Mastnak has shown, the crusades that followed were predicated on ideas of Christian peacemaking as a means of unifying the Church against internal and external threats
I will briefly consider how Llull’s conceptualization of spiritual combat, putting a temporary end to hostilities, and finding an inner, lasting peace, compare to similar ideas found in the Islamic tradition
Summary
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