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.
Mystical Doctrines of Deification: Case Studies in the Christian Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
By John Arblaster, Rob Faesen
June 30, 2020
The notion of the deification of the human person (theosis, theopoièsis, deificatio) was one of the most fundamental themes of Christian theology in its first centuries, especially in the Greek world. It is often assumed that this theme was exclusively developed in Eastern theology after the ...
The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought: Being, Nothingness, Love
1st Edition
By George Pattison, Kate Kirkpatrick
June 30, 2020
At the time when existentialism was a dominant intellectual and cultural force, a number of commentators observed that some of the language of existential philosophy, not least its interpretation of human existence in terms of nothingness, evoked the language of so-called mystical writers. This ...
Mystical Anthropology: Authors from the Low Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By John Arblaster, Rob Faesen
December 12, 2019
The question of the ‘structure’ of the human person is central to many mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This book focuses on the specific anthropology of a series of key authors in the mystical tradition in the medieval and early modern Low Countries. Their view is fundamentally ...
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 ...
Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy: Interchange in the Wake of God
1st Edition
Edited
By David Lewin, Simon D. Podmore, Duane Williams
December 12, 2019
Exploration of the interface between mystical theology and continental philosophy is a defining feature of the current intellectual and even devotional climate. But to what extent and in what depth are these disciplines actually speaking to one another; or even speaking about the same phenomena? ...
Mysticism in the French Tradition: Eruptions from France
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Nelstrop, Bradley B. Onishi
December 12, 2019
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries secular French scholars started re-engaging with religious ideas, particularly mystical ones. Mysticism in the French Tradition introduces key philosophical undercurrents and trajectories in French thought that underpin and arise from this engagement,...