Christian Mysticism: The Future of a Tradition - Softcover

Egan, Harvey D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579101534 ISBN 13: 9781579101534

Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 1998

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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.

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Harvey D. Egan, SJ, is the author of numerous works on Christian mysticism and the thought of Karl Rahner. He is currently professor of systematic and mystical theology at Boston College.

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• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1579101534
• ISBN 13: 9781579101534
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 456