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Author : Maria Jaoudi
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0809138239
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 : Rudolf Otto
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725237483
"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 : Christopher Hugh Partridge,Theodore P. C. Gabriel
Publisher : Paternoster Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : UVA:X004684372
Mysticism is proving to be the chosen type of religion for future generations of believers in the West. As traditional institutional religion continues to decline, mystical thought is celebrated as a vital, subversive alternative. Evidence for this religious-cultural shift towards the mystical, the experiential, and indeed the creation-centered can be found in bookstores, most of which devote a large amount of shelf space to mystical themes and writers from the world religions. While this shift is not new, an increasing number of westerners are turning east because they find the fundamentally mystical thought of Asian religious traditions appealing. Furthermore, numerous westerners have actually become gurus and mystics within Eastern traditions. Mysticisms East and West examines the worldwide phenomenon of mystical experience across the world religions. In examining both Christian and non-Christian expressions of mysticism, this unique volume brings together a number of prominent evangelical scholars to analyze the central historical, cultural, and theological issues. Beginning in the East, these studies in mystical experience gradually move to the West and to Christian mysticism before concluding with a number of philosophically reflective essays examining the implications and nature of mysticism.
Author : Bede Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000039910066
The author invites us to look afresh at Christianity in the context of modern physics on the one hand and Eastern mysticism on the other. Scientists now acknowledge that quantitative enquiry can reveal only one aspect of reality and to come to terms with a much deeper transcendent reality we must also be prepared to learn from Eastern traditions. The Western machanistic model of the universe, dating from the time of Galileo and Newton, must now be replaced with a new organic model -- this marks a return to the ancient traditional wisdom in which the universe was seen to consist not only of a physical dimension but also of psychological and spiritual dimensions, all of which are interrelated and interdependent. In exploring "the divine mystery behind human life" the author seeks to discover the basic unity which underlies all religion and discusses the concept of the Cosmic Person or Cosmic Lord as revealed in Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. He concludes that a radical vision of a new society and a universal religion in which "the essential values of Christianity will be preserved in living relationship with the other religious traditions of the world."
Author : Ursula King
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587680120
"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 : Denise Lardner Carmody,John Tully Carmody,John Carmody
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195088190
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 : Vladimir Lossky
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780227905081
Lossky's great work on Eastern Orthodoxy covers the whole range of its spirituality and theology. Combining careful theology with the warmth of the deep personal devotion of the author, 'The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church' is the best introduction to Orthodox teaching and theology available. It provides a reliable and informative presentation of the theological spirit of the Eastern Church. His account makes clear the profound theological differences underlying the practices of the East and West, and yet it is also an important contribution to ecumenism and to the life of Christian devotion. It brings together subjects that are more usually separated, asserting that there is no true mysticism that is not firmly rooted in theology, and no true theology that is not experienced, and therefore mystical. The tradition of the Eastern Church is presented as a mystical theology with doctrine and experience mutually conditioning each other.
Author : Olivier Clément
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1905039220
Author : Bernard McGinn
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0824504674
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 : Bettina Bäumer
Publisher : D.K. Print World Limited
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004195055
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 : Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Publisher : Summit University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781932890501
Mystics are those who seek a direct experience of the Presence of God, and mysticism is the vital, animating element of every religion. The spiritual marriage, the mystics say, is not merely a conforming to the ways and will of God but a total transforming of the soul into God. And this is the heart of the teaching that one only whispers: The soul that is transformed into God is God.
Author : Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9781465580023
Author : Bede Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 0006276369
Author : Harvey D. Egan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666733907
Fr. Egan surveys the current scholarship on mysticism, giving special attention to the works Carl Albrecht, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Richard Bucke, Teilhard de Chardin, Harvey Cox, William James, William Johnston, Bernard Lonergan, Thomas Merton, Erich Neumann, Karl Rahner, Walter Stace, Evelyn Underhill, R. C. Zaehner, and many lesser-known authors. The book covers a wide spectrum of modern thinking. It presents authors who treat mysticism as a psychological phenomenon involving pathology and altered states of consciousness, as well as others who understand it as stages of life toward union with the God of Love. Fr. Egan also highlights both those authors who have opened up Christian mysticism to the riches of the Eastern tradition and those critical of this Eastern turn. Finally, he explores the theological reflections of Karl Rahner and Bernard Lonergan for their ability to bring together mystical spirituality and academic theology. These contemporary theologians offer a solid foundation for a new science of mysticism based on the Christian mystical tradition, empirical sciences, East-West dialogue, and contemporary theological pluralism.
Author : Gedaliahu A. Guy Stroumsa,Guy G. Sṭrûmzā
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004136359
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.