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GNADENTHAL

Poetheological Online Magazine

Submissions

Gnadenthal is written, for the most part, by friends and acquaintances. Alongside this, we accept unsolicited submissions.

We concern ourselves with subjects from the border regions of the Catholic and Orthodox traditions: mysticism and hermeticism, material piety and folk belief, syncretisms, forgotten metaphysics. Whoever dwells in these regions is invited — believers and doubters, monks and Schwärmer, pilgrims, comparatists, seekers of God and the longing. No scholarly training is required.

Send a text, or briefly present the idea: [email address].

Proposals for reviews are welcome: half-forgotten and obscure religious films, books, music — especially from abroad or from the past.

For the coming issues and the online register we are commissioning, among others — sorted by category:

Suspiria ex Scetis
  • the whispered initiation
  • the convent epidemics
  • the Raskolniki
Martyrology
  • the cynocephali
  • the cephalophores
  • the sanbenito and the carocha
  • the flagellants
  • the self-crucifixions
Obscura
  • John of Rupescissa’s dreams of the Antichrist in Quanzhou
  • Jesus = 888
  • the possessed of Loudun and Louviers
  • religious samizdat journals
  • the children’s crusades
  • Eliade and the tetrachromatic vision of bees
Mysticism
  • bridal mysticism as a clinical picture
  • ruach and hevel
  • the melancholy of the seas
  • the Haemorrhoissa
Syncretism
  • teoqualo
  • theophagy
  • the blood miracle of Naples
  • the globus cruciger in the fashion industry
Dialectics
  • the psychogeography of the City of God
  • the ostentatio genitalium
  • the apokatastasis
Hagiotherapy
  • osmogenesis, or the odour of sanctity
  • the myroblytes
  • the dancing plague of St Vitus
Apocrypha
  • the Abgar correspondence
  • the Gospel of Nicodemus
  • the harrowing of hell
Reviews
  • the martyr’s palm at the Cannes film festival
  • half-forgotten religious films from abroad
  • obscure devotional recordings

Write to us, too, if a subject is missing from this register.

Texts up to 800 words. Essayistic, lyrical or narrative; poetic-theological rather than academic. Anonymous publication under a Christian pseudonym is possible.

If this seems too short to you: learn from Borges. Pretend the longer text already exists, and write its summary. And remember that God is against hevel.

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