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| Author | : Maria Jaoudi |
| Publisher | : Paulist Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9780809138234 |
Explores themes of transformation, wholeness, and healing as presented by both Eastern and Western mystics, and how their ideas parallel the global insights found in Hinduism, Taoism, Islam, and Buddhism.
| Author | : Denise Lardner Carmody |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780195088199 |
Defining the mystical experience in terms of a direct encounter with ultimate reality, an examination of the mystical experience as it has been found in six major world religions illuminates the lives and beliefs of each tradition's outstanding mystics. UP.
| Author | : Rudolf Otto |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2016-09-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1725237482 |
"This book attempts to penetrate the nature of that strange spiritual phenomenon which we call mysticism by comparing the two principal classic types of Eastern and Western mystical experience. By means of this comparison, and by explaining the individual features of one type by those of the other, the nature of mysticism itself becomes gradually more comprehensible." --From the Foreword
| Author | : Ursula King |
| Publisher | : Paulist Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1587680122 |
"Ursula King's Christian Mystics offers a distinctive perspective on spirituality. The author presents the Christian mystical tradition through short biographies of its great figures, biographies which are highly readable without oversimplifying the ideas of these great figures. This is an outstanding entryway into the rich and deep world of Christian mysticism, recommended for readers of all backgrounds." - Michael Sells (Professor of Comparative Religions, Haverford College).
| Author | : Gedaliahu A. Guy Stroumsa |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004136355 |
This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. These esoteric traditions do not reflect the influence of Greek Mystery religions, as has often been claimed, but rather seem to stem from the Jewish background of Christianity. They were adopted by various Gnostic teachings, a fact which helps explaining their eventual disappearance from Patristic literature. The eleven chapters study each a different aspect of the problem, including the questions of Gnostic and Manichaean esotericism. This book will be of interest to all students of religious history in Late Antiquity. Revised and extended paperback edition. Originally published in 1996. Please click here for details.
| Author | : Bettina Bäumer |
| Publisher | : D.K. Print World Limited |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Setting Out A Spiritual Dialogue Between Saiva And Christian Mysticism, The Book Articulates World-Views Of The Mystical Traditions Of Saiva-Siddhanta, Kashmir Saivism, Meister Eckhart, Hadewijch, Julian Of Norwich, St. Ignatius Loyola And Of The Eastern Christianity.
| Author | : Bernard McGinn |
| Publisher | : Herder & Herder |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2021-02-22 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780824504670 |
The Crisis of Mysticism is the first book in English in seventy years to give a full account of the struggle over mystical spirituality that tore the Catholic Church apart at the end of the seventeenth century, resulting in papal condemnation of some mystics and the decline of mysticism in Catholicism for almost two centuries.
| Author | : Richard Smoley |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2008-03-31 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0470249072 |
Though love is a perennial topic for writers of all kinds, much of what is written aboutlove is simplistic and unsatisfying. In Conscious Love, Richard Smoley—an expert on the esoteric traditions of mystical Christianity—incorporates insights and wisdom about love from noted thinkers in literature, art, philosophy, sociology, cultural criticism, and even neurology. This remarkable book offers a blueprint for infusing conscious love into human relationships.
| Author | : Glenn Alexander Magee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 820 |
| Release | : 2016-04-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1316679357 |
Mysticism and esotericism are two intimately related strands of the Western tradition. Despite their close connections, however, scholars tend to treat them separately. Whereas the study of Western mysticism enjoys a long and established history, Western esotericism is a young field. The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism examines both of these traditions together. The volume demonstrates that the roots of esotericism almost always lead back to mystical traditions, while the work of mystics was bound up with esoteric or occult preoccupations. It also shows why mysticism and esotericism must be examined together if either is to be understood fully. Including contributions by leading scholars, this volume features essays on such topics as alchemy, astrology, magic, Neoplatonism, Kabbalism, Renaissance Hermetism, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, numerology, Christian theosophy, spiritualism, and much more. This Handbook serves as both a capstone of contemporary scholarship and a cornerstone of future research.
