Mystics

By: Harmless, William, S.J, 1953-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xviii, 350 p.; tables 24 cmISBN: 0195300394; 0195300386; 9780195300383; 9780195300390Subject(s): Mystics | Mysticism

Contents:

A theology called mystical : Jean Gerson and William James --Mystic as fire watcher : Thomas Merton -- Mystic as experienced exegete : Bernard of Clairvaux --Mystic as multimedia artist : Hildegard of Bingen --Mystic as cartographer : Bonaventure --Mystic as mystagogue : Meister Eckhart --Mystic as desert calligrapher : Evagrius Ponticus --Mysticism and Islam : Rumi --Mysticism and Zen Buddhism : Dōgen -- Reading mystics : text, community, experience.

Subject: Mystics are path-breaking religious practitioners who claim to have experienced the infinite, word-defying Mystery that is God. Many have been gifted writers with an uncanny ability to communicate the great realities of life with both a theologian's precision and a poet's lyricism. They use words to jolt us into recognizing ineffable mysteries surging beneath the surface of our lives and within the depths of our hearts and, by their artistry, can awaken us to see and savor fugitive glimpses of a God-drenched world. In Mystics, William Harmless, S.J., introduces readers to the scholarly study.

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End notes: p. 275-314

Index and bibliography: p. 315-335

A theology called mystical : Jean Gerson and William James --Mystic as fire watcher : Thomas Merton --
Mystic as experienced exegete : Bernard of Clairvaux --Mystic as multimedia artist : Hildegard of Bingen --Mystic as cartographer : Bonaventure --Mystic as mystagogue : Meister Eckhart --Mystic as desert calligrapher : Evagrius Ponticus --Mysticism and Islam : Rumi --Mysticism and Zen Buddhism : Dōgen --
Reading mystics : text, community, experience.

Mystics are path-breaking religious practitioners who claim to have experienced the infinite, word-defying Mystery that is God. Many have been gifted writers with an uncanny ability to communicate the great realities of life with both a theologian's precision and a poet's lyricism. They use words to jolt us into recognizing ineffable mysteries surging beneath the surface of our lives and within the depths of our hearts and, by their artistry, can awaken us to see and savor fugitive glimpses of a God-drenched world. In Mystics, William Harmless, S.J., introduces readers to the scholarly study.

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