Mystics of the Christian Tradition

Mystics of the Christian Tradition

"Mystics of the Christian Tradition is a comprehensive guide to discovering what mysticism means and who the mystics of the Christian tradition actually were. This lively and authoritative introduction to mysticism is a valuable survey for students and the general reader alike."--Jacket.

Steven Fanning

London ; New York : Routledge

2001

Origins -- Mysticism in the Greco-Roman world -- Mysticism and the foundation of Christianity -- The Post-Apostolic Church -- The Eastern Church -- The Alexandrian Ascetics -- The Desert Fathers -- The Byzantine Church -- The Russian Church -- The Western Church in the Middle Ages -- The earlier Middle Ages -- The New Mysticism -- The Beguines -- The age of repression and the mystics of the Rhineland and the Low Countries -- English mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Mystics in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Mystics in Early Modern Europe: the Reformation, the effloresence of mysticism in Spain and France -- Anabaptists and Lutherans -- Spanish mystics of the Golden Age -- French mystics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Post-Reformation mystics in England and America: the twentieth-century revival of mysticism -- English mysticism -- American Protestant mysticism -- Twentieth-century Catholic mysticism -- Twentieth-century mystical writers on mysticism.

chapter ProfilOGUE -- chapter 1 CHAPTERI ORIGINS -- MYSTICISM IN THE GRECO'ROMAN WORLD -- part THE POST-APOSTOLIC CHURCH -- chapter 2 CHAPTERII THE EASTERN CHURCH -- chapter THE RUSSIAN CHURCH -- chapter 3 CHAPTERIII THE WESTERN CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES -- part 4 Mystics in Early Modern Europe: the Reformation, the effloresence of mysticism in Spain and France -- EFFLORESCENCE OF MYSTICISM IN SPAIN AND FRANCE -- chapter ANABAPTISTS AND LUTHERANS -- chapter SPANISH MYSTICS OF THE GOLDEN AGE -- chapter 5 Post-Reformation mystics in England and America: the twentieth-century revival of mysticism -- ENGLISH MYSTICISM -- chapter AMERICAN PROTESTANT MYSTICISM -- chapter EPILOGUE -- chapter NOTES -- ProfilOGUE -- chapter IV MYSTICS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE -- chapter V POST-REFORMATION MYSTICS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA -- chapter GLOSSARY -- chapter Eastern / RussianChurches.

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