Author : Steven Fanning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1134590989
From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition. Full of colourful detail, this book examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity.
Author : Steven T. Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Author : Ben Zion Bokser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN : 9780884829225
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Author : Sarah Seymour-Winfield
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2016-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781945091124
"Images Old and New" takes mysticism from behind monastic walls and introduces this potential into the life experience of ordinary people.By a simple superimposition of familiar Old and New Testament passages which have not been previously paired, the sincere reader perceives God not as a static creedal belief, but as a dynamic living Essence."
Author : Castelo, Daniel
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802869564
Informed reassessment of Pentecostalism as a mystical tradition of the church universal Pentecostalism, says Daniel Castelo, is commonly framed as "evangelicalism with tongues" or dismissed as simply a revivalist movement. In this book Castelo argues that Pentecostalism is actually best understood as a Christian mystical tradition. Taking a theological approach to Pentecostalism, Castelo looks particularly at the movement's methodology and epistemology as he carefully distinguishes it from American evangelicalism. Castelo displays the continuity between Pentecostalism and ancient church tradition, creating a unified narrative of Pentecostalism and the mystical tradition of Christianity throughout history and today. Finally, he uses a test case to press the question of what the interactions between mystical theology and dogmatics could look like.
Author : Jean-Yves Leloup
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809141777
"Jean-Yves Leloup explores the writings of many spiritual masters from across the centuries, in particular the Desert Fathers, the fourth-century monk Evagrius, St. John Cassian, and the anonymous nineteenth-century author of The Way of the Pilgrim." "Drawn from the experience of the monasteries of Sinai and Mount Athos, here is a clear and practical presentation of the spiritual art of arts: stillness in the face of interior pain and confusion." "These spiritual riches, refined and developed by the Orthodox tradition in Christianity, can also be recognized in the teaching and practice of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islamic Sufism. The fundamental truth of one tradition is to be found under its own proper forms and nuances in others. Far from diminishing the unique value of this hesychastic way of prayer, the most developed spiritual traditions of humanity affirm it as one of the great forms through which humanity reaches out to embrace Infinite Reality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Andrew Louth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191608777
Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. Andrew Louth aims to redress the balance. Recognizing that the intellectual form of this tradition was decisively influenced by Platonic ideas of the soul's relationship to God, Louth begins with an examination of Plato and Platonism. The discussion of the Fathers which follows shows how the mystical tradition is at the heart of their thought and how the dogmatic tradition both moulds and is the reflection of mystical insights and concerns. This new edition of a classic study of the diverse influences upon Christian spirituality includes a new Epilogue which brings the text completely up to date.
Author : Bruce Stephen Naschak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1793637911
Esoteric communities of masters and disciples ("Holy Traditions") have, in both prehistoric and historical eras, developed doctrines and rituals to experience mystical union with the divine. The author describes these traditions, their ideas, and their practices—noting their similarities to and their interactions with other mystical traditions.
Author : Harvey D. Egan SJ
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1998-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725206803
Christian mysticism is unique in its view of Jesus' death and resurrection as the very cause and exemplar of the mystical life in all its purity. Jesus' saving death on the cross exemplifies the mystical letting-go of everything consoling, tangible and finite in order to surrender totally to the mystery of the Father's unconditional love. In this introduction to Christian mysticism, Reverend Harvey Egan, S.J. presents four Christian mystics as paradigms of the classical tradition: St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the unknown author of the Cloud of Unknowing. From this foundation he moves to two contemporary figures, Thomas Merton and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, each of whom reflects a contemporary transposition of the two mystical traditions, the apophatic, which emphasizes the radical difference between God and creatures, and the kataphatic, which emphasizes the similarity between God and creatures.
Author : David Bakan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0486147495
A pioneering scholarly investigation into the intersection of personality and cultural history, this study asserts that Freudian psychology is rooted in Judaism — particularly, in the mysticism of the Kabbalah.
