| 单词 | unitive way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunitive way b. Of or relating to the third and highest stage of spiritual advancement, following the purgative (purgative adj. 2a) and illuminative (illuminative adj. 2a) stages, in which the individual will is consciously united with that of God. Esp. in unitive life, unitive way. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [noun] > advancement of unitive way1609 1609 Benet of Canfield Rule of Perfection (new ed.) i. i. 6 A man goeth forward..in the contemplatiue and vnitiue life without changing or interrupting his course of exercise, or breaking the thread of his spirituall practise. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. §26 Concerning the very same thing which the old Divines call the unitive Way. 1691 E. Scarisbrick Life Lady Warner iii. vi. 209 By the purgative and illuminating way, she attains to the Unitive. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. 237 The Purgative, Illuminative and Unitive Conditions of the Mind. 1756 W. Calcott Thoughts Moral & Divine 189 The contemplative and unitive Way of Religion, consisting in..affectionate Unions and Adherences to him [sc. God]. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 208 The soul..Lay lulled in glory, and in unitive Life with divinity. 1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism i. 10 Strictly, the unitive road (via) leads to the contemplative life (vita). 1943 C. Williams Figure of Beatrice vi. 91 Until this unitive life is achieved the unity of which it is at once a part and an apprehension cannot be known. 1988 J. Bradshaw Healing Shame that Binds You ii. xii. 219 The dark night of the soul is the stage of preparation before entering the ‘unitive way’. 2000 M. Ivens tr. J. Melloni Exercises St. Ignatius in Western Trad. iii. 41 Hugh of Balma identifies the purgative way with beginners, the illuminative way with those making progress, and the unitive life with the perfect. < as lemmas |
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