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Hilton, Walter
Hilton, Walter (c.1343–96), English contemplative writer. One of a circle of clerks associated with T. Arundel both at Ely and York, after a period as a hermit, c.1386 he became an Augustinian canon at Thurgarton Priory, Notts. His main work is the Scale of Perfection or Scala Perfectionis, written in English. This describes the renewal of the defaced image of God in the soul, first by ‘reforming in faith’ and then by ‘reforming in feeling’. Between these stages is the ‘luminous darkness’ of mortification, the transition from disordered self-love to love of God. He wrote various other works in English, translated Eight Chapters on Perfection from Spanish, and wrote academic works in Latin.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-HiltonWalter.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-HiltonWalter.html |
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Walter Hilton
Walter Hilton d. 1396, English religious writer, an Austin canon of Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire. His spiritual treatise The Scale of Perfection (ed. by Evelyn Underhill, 1923) is a general manual for holy living. Although it was addressed to a Carthusian recluse, it became popular among English laymen before the Reformation. Hilton also composed a shorter Treatise Written to a Devout Man. His mysticism, typically English, resembles that of Richard Rolle of Hampole .
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"Walter Hilton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Walter Hilton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Hilton-W.html "Walter Hilton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Hilton-W.html |
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Hilton, Walter
Hilton, Walter (d. 1396). English mystic. After a period as a hermit, he became an Augustinian canon at Thurgarton Priory, Notts. His principal work, widely read in medieval England, is his Ladder of Perfection, which traces the soul's ascent to God in terms of the reformation of the image of God in the soul in two stages: reformation in faith, and in feeling, the former being the correction of false notions, the latter appropriation of the truth at the deepest level.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-HiltonWalter.html JOHN BOWKER. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-HiltonWalter.html |
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Hilton, Walter
Hilton, Walter (d. 1396), an Augustinian canon, the mystical author of The Scale of Perfection which is addressed to a single woman recluse. It is the most approachable and least esoteric of the celebrated 14th-cent. English mystical texts.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-HiltonWalter.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hilton, Walter." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-HiltonWalter.html |
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