Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism
About the Book Series
This series facilitates new points of synergy and fresh theological engagements with Christian mystical traditions. Reflecting the plurality of theological approaches to Christian mystical theology, books in the series cover historical, literary, practical, and systematic perspectives as well as philosophical, psychological, and phenomenological methods.
Although the primary focus of the series is the Christian tradition, exploration of texts from other traditions also highlight the theological, psychological and philosophical questions that Christian mysticism brings to the fore.
Kierkegaard and Mysticism: Reception, Influence, Resonance
1st Edition
Edited
By Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal
September 16, 2025
Kierkegaard and Mysticism brings together scholars who show that reading Søren Kierkegaard from the perspective of mysticism not only sheds new light on the Dane’s thought but also offers a fresh approach to mysticism as such, considering its relevance for existential questions, ethics, inter-faith...
Metaphor, Making and Mysticism: Radical Re-Imaginings in Language and Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheila Gallagher, Louise Nelstrop, Lydia Shahan
August 29, 2025
This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making and mysticism and sheds new light on the power of the metaphorical and creative dimensions of the mystical for the twenty-first century. It explores the ways a variety of mystical writers deal with metaphor and image by bringing together...
Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandra Verini, Abir Bazaz
December 18, 2024
This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women from the disparate religious traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity expressed devotion in parallel ways. The argument is that women’s ...
Medieval Mystical Women in the West: Growing in the Height of Love
1st Edition
Edited
By John Arblaster, Rob Faesen
July 18, 2024
This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval – and a few early modern – women across Western Europe. Women had a profound and lasting impact on the development of medieval and early modern spiritual and mystical literature, both through their own writing and ...
John of the Cross: Carmel, Desire and Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward Howells, Peter Tyler
April 12, 2024
This book explores the life and teaching of John of the Cross, the Spanish mystic who remains a major source of Western thought on spirituality, theology and mysticism. Leading academics discuss the importance and legacy of John from historical, theological, philosophical, pastoral, ecumenical, ...
Spiritual Formation as the Hero’s Journey in John of Ruusbroec
1st Edition
By Robert Pelfrey
January 29, 2024
This book examines the theology of spiritual formation developed by fourteenth-century Flemish mystic John of Ruusbroec, arguing that his formational path clearly and consistently displays the characteristics of the archetypal narrative structure of the hero’s journey. To start with, a ...
Mysticism and Materialism in the Wake of German Idealism
1st Edition
By W. Ezekiel Goggin, Sean Hannan
September 25, 2023
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 ...
Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice: Renewing the Contemplative Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher C. H. Cook, Julienne McLean, Peter Tyler
December 12, 2019
In Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice several leading scholars explore key themes within the Christian mystical tradition, contemporary and historical. The overall aim of the book is to demonstrate the relevance of mystical theology to contemporary spiritual practice. Attention ...