The great German mystic Meister Eckhart remains one of the most fascinating figures in Western thought. Revived interest in Eckhart's mysticism has been matched, and even surpassed, by the study of the women mystics of the late13th century. This book argues that Eckhart's thought cannot be fully be understood until it is viewed against the background of the breakthroughs made by the women mystics who preceded him.
Inner Life and Worlds of Soul & Spirit (New Light on the Visions of Anne C. Emmerich, #10)
by Anne Catherine Emmerich and James Richard Wetmore
Mysticism Medieval and Modern (Salzburg studies: Elizabethan & Renaissance studies, 92:20)
A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity (Bibliolife Reproduction)
by Yogi Ramacharaka
This beautiful collection of readings celebrates the thought of the women of the Church from the early Christian centuries to the present. The editor has carefully selected and made eminently readable excerpted passages from Church Mothers both famous and obscure, women religious of all ages, cultures, and centuries, whose wisdom has been heralded or heretofore neglected-among many: --Catherine of Sienna; Theresa of Avila; Julian of Norwich; Mechthild of Magdeburg; Dhouda; Aemiliana; Proba; Sync...
Between the 'mysticism of Politics' and the 'politics of Mysticism'
by David Ranson
The Unity of Mystical Traditions (Numen Book, #107)
by Randall Studstill
This book argues that mystical doctrines and practices initiate parallel transformative processes in the consciousness of mystics. This thesis is supported through a comparative analysis of Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen (rdzogs-chen) and the medieval German mysticism of Eckhart, Suso, and Tauler. These traditions are interpreted using a system/cybernetic model of consciousness. This model provides a theoretical framework for assessing the cognitive effects of mystical doctrines and practices and sho...
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to comprehend them fully. Karolin Mirzakhan argues that although Schlegel's ironic fragments proclaim their incompleteness in both their form and their content, they are the primary means for facilitating an intuition of the Abso...
Mysticism and Materialism in the Wake of German Idealism (Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism)
by W. Ezekiel Goggin and Sean Hannan
This book argues that the rediscovery of mystical theology in nineteenth-century Germany not only helped inspire idealism and romanticism, but also planted the seeds of their overcoming by way of critical materialism. Thanks in part to the Neoplatonic turn in the works of J. G. Fichte, as well as the enthusiasm of mining engineer Franz X. von Baader, mystical themes gained a critical currency, and mystical texts returned to circulation. This reawakening of the mystical tradition influenced roman...
The twentieth anniversary of the beatification of Edith Stein (1891-1942), the accomplished Jewish philosopher who made a spiritual journey from atheism to agnosticism before eventually converting to Catholicism, will be celebrated in 2007. In "Edith Stein: Philosopher and Mystic", Josephine Koeppel chronicles the life of this influential saint from her secular youth and entrance into a German monastery to her tragic death at Auschwitz. This accessible work will reward readers of all faiths inte...
