The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness - Softcover

Lanzetta, Beverly J.

 
9780791449509: The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791449505 ISBN 13: 9780791449509
Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Provides an innovative theology based in mysticism, one that acknowledges the pain of spiritual repression and values religious pluralism.

From the mystic's experience of nothingness and the desert, The Other Side of Nothingness offers a theology of humility sensitive to religious pluralism and to the pain of spiritual oppression. With a passionate concern for contemporary interreligious issues, Beverly J. Lanzetta provides insight into how mystical consciousness overturns claims of dogmatic truth and prepares the self to experience the radical openness of divinity.

The work draws on a variety of Christian mystical texts, including those of Meister Ekhart, Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Bonaventure, and the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing while also making reference to Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism and the thought of contemporary social mystics such as Heschel, Gandhi, Merton, Thurman, and Day. Lanzetta illustrates how the annihilatory mystical experience draws the seeker to a place beyond a tradition's self-understanding to new dimensions of the sacred and, in some cases, to new revelatory paradigms. It is here that she provokes our thought in her statement that the divine nature is itself pluralistic, non-absolute, and continually giving birth to new traditions. By showing how nothingness functions in mystical experience as a catalyst for the liberation of our hearts, we are brought to a vision of theology that is nonviolent and inclusive of all creation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Beverly J. Lanzetta is Professor and Spiritual Director of Interfaith Theological Seminary, Research Associate at Southwest Institute for Research on Women, and the author of Path of the Heart.

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Verlag
State University of New York Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0791449505
ISBN 13 
9780791449509
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Anzahl der Seiten
194
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