Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism: Opening to the Mystical
’Mystical theology’ has developed through a range of meanings, from the hidden dimensions of divine significance in the community’s interpretation of its scriptures to the much later ’science’ of the soul’s ascent into communion with God. The thinkers and questions addressed in this book draws us into the heart of a complicated, beautiful, and often tantalisingly unfinished conversation, continuing over centuries and often brushing allusively into parallel concerns in other religions. Raising fundamental matters of epistemology, representation, metaphysics, and divine reality, contributors approach the mystical from postmodern, feminist, sociological and historical perspectives through thinkers such as Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, William James, Evelyn Underhill, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf Otto, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chrétien. Medieval and early modern radical prophetic approaches are also explored. This book includes new essays by Sarah Apetrei, Tina Beattie, Raphel Cadenhead, Oliver Davies, Philip Endean, Brian FitzGerald, Ann Loades, George Pattison, Simon D. Podmore, Joel D.S. Rasmussen, and Johannes Zachhuber.
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Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism: Opening to the Mystical
’Mystical theology’ has developed through a range of meanings, from the hidden dimensions of divine significance in the community’s interpretation of its scriptures to the much later ’science’ of the soul’s ascent into communion with God. The thinkers and questions addressed in this book draws us into the heart of a complicated, beautiful, and often tantalisingly unfinished conversation, continuing over centuries and often brushing allusively into parallel concerns in other religions. Raising fundamental matters of epistemology, representation, metaphysics, and divine reality, contributors approach the mystical from postmodern, feminist, sociological and historical perspectives through thinkers such as Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, William James, Evelyn Underhill, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf Otto, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chrétien. Medieval and early modern radical prophetic approaches are also explored. This book includes new essays by Sarah Apetrei, Tina Beattie, Raphel Cadenhead, Oliver Davies, Philip Endean, Brian FitzGerald, Ann Loades, George Pattison, Simon D. Podmore, Joel D.S. Rasmussen, and Johannes Zachhuber.
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Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism: Opening to the Mystical

Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism: Opening to the Mystical

Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism: Opening to the Mystical

Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism: Opening to the Mystical

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’Mystical theology’ has developed through a range of meanings, from the hidden dimensions of divine significance in the community’s interpretation of its scriptures to the much later ’science’ of the soul’s ascent into communion with God. The thinkers and questions addressed in this book draws us into the heart of a complicated, beautiful, and often tantalisingly unfinished conversation, continuing over centuries and often brushing allusively into parallel concerns in other religions. Raising fundamental matters of epistemology, representation, metaphysics, and divine reality, contributors approach the mystical from postmodern, feminist, sociological and historical perspectives through thinkers such as Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, William James, Evelyn Underhill, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf Otto, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chrétien. Medieval and early modern radical prophetic approaches are also explored. This book includes new essays by Sarah Apetrei, Tina Beattie, Raphel Cadenhead, Oliver Davies, Philip Endean, Brian FitzGerald, Ann Loades, George Pattison, Simon D. Podmore, Joel D.S. Rasmussen, and Johannes Zachhuber.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781317137344
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/15/2016
Series: Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 242
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Louise Nelstrop is a lecturer in Christian Spirituality and Director of Spirituality Programmes in Sarum College, Salisbury. Her research interests include the English Mystics, Theoretical and Philosophical approaches to Mysticism, Cistercian and Victorine Spirituality and the Emerging Church. Her recently publications include Christian Mysticism: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches and Evaluating Fresh Expressions: Explorations in Emerging Church with Martin Percy (eds). Simon D. Podmore is a lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University. His research interests explore the interfaces between theology, philosophy, psychotherapy and the arts. His recent publications include Kierkegaard and the Self before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (2011) and Struggling with God: Kierkegaard and the Temptation of Spiritual Trial (2013).

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: remembering and forgetting the mystical in contemporary theological discourse, Louise Nelstrop; The return of mysticism: the eternal return of ’the same’?, George Pattison; On reading medieval mystics today, Oliver Davies; Mysticism as a category of inquiry in the philosophies of Ernst Troeltsch and William James, Joel D.S. Rasmussen; Mysticism as a social type of Christianity? Ernst Troeltsch’s interpretation in its historical and systematic context, Johannes Zachhuber; Ignatian spirituality: the mystical within the Church, Philip Endean; Mysterium horrendum: mystical theology and the negative numinous, Simon D. Podmore; Mysticism: 'the energetic love’ of a female adventurer, Ann Loades; The body between us: towards an incarnate mysticism, Tina Beattie; Spiritual maturation and gender in Gregory of Nyssa’s ’mystical theology’, Raphael Cadenhead; Prophecy and the contemplation of history; Peter John Olivi and Hugh of St Victor, Brian FitzGerald; Prophecy and mysticism in 17th-century Britain, Sarah Apetrei; Index.
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