Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics
Title | Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics PDF eBook |
Author | John Crowder |
Publisher | Destiny Image Publishers |
Pages | 799 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0768423503 |
Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics contains more than 70 photos, illustrations, and biographies of men and women whose lives have demonstrated the phenomenal throughout the ages. Let their stories inspire you to join their ranks as part of this coming revival generation.
The New Mysticism
Title | The New Mysticism PDF eBook |
Author | Adela Marion Curtis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | New Thought |
ISBN |
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World
Title | Women Mystics Confront the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Marie-Florine Bruneau |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1998-01-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0791497844 |
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which affected religious sentiments and the perception of the self at the dawn of the modern world. Anchored in a comprehensive knowledge of the religious history of seventeenth-century France, this book offers a vivid account of the fascinating lives and work of two exceptional women. Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717) continue a literary and spiritual tradition that had begun in the thirteenth century. Yet, because they were at a crucial point in the history of Western mysticism, when this movement was at once at its apogee and in the first stages of decline, their writings show indications of a changing mentality. These transformations shed light on the social significance of female mysticism in the Western tradition. The opportunities the two women seized or shunned highlight their maneuvering for validation and autonomy. But their choices also highlight many contradictions, compromises, and limits imposed upon their self-expression. At the confluence of French and American scholarship on mysticism, this work joins these two schools of thought by introducing gender as a viable category of inquiry into the one and by tempering the overly-optimistic interpretation of female mysticism of the other.
Mystics of the Christian Tradition
Title | Mystics of the Christian Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Fanning |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2005-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134590970 |
From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition as we know it. Full of colourful detail, Mystics of the Christian Tradition examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity over two thousand years, and reveals the often sexual nature of these encounters with the divine. In this fascinating account, Fanning reveals how God's direct revelation to St Francis of Assisi led to his living with lepers and kissing their sores, and describes the mystical life of Margery Kempe who 'took weeping to new decibel levels'. Through presenting the lives of almost a hundred mystics, this broad survey invites us to consider what it means to be a mystic and to explore how people such as Joan of Arc had their lives determined by divine visions. Mystics of the Christian Tradition is a comprehensive guide to discovering what mysticism means and who the mystics of the Christian tradition actually were.
Christian Mystics
Title | Christian Mystics PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula King |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1587680122 |
"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).
New SCM Dictionary of Christian Spirituality
Title | New SCM Dictionary of Christian Spirituality PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Sheldrake |
Publisher | SCM Press |
Pages | 1016 |
Release | 2013-05-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334049547 |
This dictionary attempts to give direct access to the development of Christian Spirituality. It is a series of pieces written by experts to provide instant, accurate and thought-provoking information of high scholarship.
Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern
Title | Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern PDF eBook |
Author | James C. Harrington |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2015-02-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0761865438 |
In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart—three of the greatest mystics of all time—meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic. Although the mystics came from different backgrounds and religious traditions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), their spiritual paths led them to similar understandings of a union with the Divine. The three mystics have a timeless and timely message for people who walk the earth eight centuries after they did, no matter an individual’s religious background or even if they have none. It is a message of connecting with the “divine spark” deep within us and within the universe.