The essential writings of Christian mysticism /

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Edition:Modern Library pbk. ed.
Imprint:New York : Modern Library, 2006.
Description:xviii, 559 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Modern Library classics
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6239171
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Other authors / contributors:McGinn, Bernard, 1937-
ISBN:0812974212
9780812974218
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [553]-559).

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505 0 0 |g Pt. 1.  |t Foundations of mystical practice --  |g Sect. 1.  |t Biblical interpretation --  |g 1.  |t Commentary on the Song of Songs /  |r Origen --  |g 2.  |t The life of Moses /  |r Gregory of Nyssa --  |g 3.  |t Sermon on Psalm 41 (Vulgate) /  |r Augustine of Hippo --  |g 4.  |t Sermons on the Song of Songs 23 /  |r Bernard of Clairvaux --  |g 5.  |t Sermon 2 /  |r Meister Eckhart --  |g 6.  |t Commentary on the Song of Songs /  |r Madame Guyon --  |g Sect. 2.  |t Asceticism and purgation --  |g 1.  |t The life of St. Antony /  |r Athanasius of Alexandria --  |g 2.  |t Praktikos /  |r Evagrius Ponticus --  |g 3.  |t The life of Mary of Oignies /  |r James of Vitry --  |g 4.  |t Purgation and purgatory /  |r Catherine of Genoa --  |g 5.  |t The ascent of Mount Carmel /  |r John of the Cross --  |g Sect. 3.  |t Prayer, liturgy, and sacraments --  |g 1.  |t Prayer /  |r Origen --  |g 2.  |t Armenian hymn no. 1 /  |r Ephrem the Syrian --  |g 3.  |t Conferences 9 and 10 /  |r John Cassian --  |g 4.  |t The third ethical discourse /  |r Symeon the New Theologian --  |g 5.  |t Vision VII /  |r Hadewijch of Antwerp --  |g 6.  |t Sermon 39 /  |r John Tauler --  |g 7.  |t On the four stages of prayer /  |r Teresa of Avila --  |g 8.  |t The way of the pilgrim --  |g Sect. 4.  |t Inner and outer practices --  |g 1.  |t The Philokalia, "discourse on Abba Philimon" --  |g 2.  |t Carthusian customs /  |r Guigo I. --  |g 3.  |t Spiritual friendship /  |r Aelred of Rievaulx --  |g 4.  |t Letters of spiritual direction --  |g 5.  |t The spiritual guide /  |r Miguel de Molinos --  |g Sect. 5.  |t Mystical itineraries --  |g 1.  |t The threefold way --  |g 2.  |t The four degrees of violent charity /  |r Richard of St. Victor --  |g 3.  |t The mind's journey into God /  |r Bonaventure --  |g 4.  |t The mirror of simple annihilated souls /  |r Marguerite Porete --  |g 5.  |t Sermon 39 /  |r John Tauler --  |g 6.  |t The ladder of perfection /  |r Walter Hilton --  |g Pt. 2.  |t Aspects of mystical consciousness --  |g Sect. 6.  |t Living the trinity --  |g 1.  |t On the trinity /  |r Augustine --  |g 2.  |t The mirror of faith /  |r William of Saint-Thierry --  |g 3.  |t The flowing light of the godhead /  |r Mechthild of Magdeburg --  |g 4.  |t The one hundred and fifty chapters /  |r Gregory Palamas --  |g 5.  |t The living flame of love /  |r John of the Cross --  |g Sect. 7.  |t Encountering Christ --  |g 1.  |t Sermons on the Song of Songs 74 /  |r Bernard of Clairvaux --  |g 2.  |t Francis of Assisi and the stigmata --  |g 3.  |t The clock of wisdom /  |r Henry Suso --  |g 4.  |t Reflections of divine love /  |r Julian of Norwich --  |g 5.  |t Encounters with Christ /  |r Simone Weil --  |g Sect. 8.  |t Love and knowledge --  |g 1.  |t The golden letter /  |r William of Saint-Thierry --  |g 2.  |t Sermons on the Song of Songs 83 /  |r Bernard of Clairvaux --  |g 3.  |t The cloud of unknowing --  |g 4.  |t Two letters on mystical theology /  |r Nicholas of Cusa --  |g 5.  |t True Christianity /  |r Johann Arndt --  |g Sect. 9.  |t Positive and negative ways of God --  |g 1.  |t The mystical theology /  |r Dionysius --  |g 2.  |t Two songs of praise /  |r Francis of Assisi --  |g 3.  |t The Granum Sinapis : poem and commentary --  |g 4.  |t English poets on God in nature --  |g 5.  |t Hymn of the universe /  |r Pierre Teilhard de Chardin --  |g Sect. 10.  |t Vision, contemplation, and rapture --  |g 1.  |t Contemplation in the fathers --  |g 2.  |t Augustine on vision and rapture --  |g 3.  |t Dialogues 2.35 /  |r George the Great --  |g 4.  |t Hymn 18 /  |r Symeon the New Theologian --  |g 5.  |t Hildegard of Bingen as visionary and theorist of visions --  |g 6.  |t Contemplation and its forms /  |r Hugh of St. Victor --  |g 7.  |t The fire of love /  |r Richard Rolle --  |g 8.  |t On the vision of God /  |r Nicholas of Cusa --  |g 9.  |t Autobiography /  |r Ignatius of Loyola --  |g 10.  |t Life /  |r Teresa of Avila 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spiritual canticle /  |r John of the Cross --  |g 7.  |t The treatise on the love of God /  |r Francis de Sales --  |g 8.  |t The relation of 1654 /  |r Marie of the Incarnation --  |g Pt. 3.  |t Implications on the mystical life --  |g Sect. 14.  |t Mysticism and heresy --  |g 1.  |t Mystical heresy in early Christianity --  |g 2.  |t The heresy of the free spirit --  |g 3.  |t Meister Eckhart's condemnation --  |g 4.  |t The condemnations of quietism --  |g 5.  |t Explication of the maxims of the saints regarding the interior life /  |r Francois Fenelon --  |g Sect. 15.  |t Contemplation and action --  |g 1.  |t Pastoral care 2.5 /  |r Gregory the Great --  |g 2.  |t Sermons on the Song of Songs 50 /  |r Bernard of Clairvaux --  |g 3.  |t Selections from Sermon 86 /  |r Meister Eckhart --  |g 4.  |t The cloud of unknowing --  |g 5.  |t The dialogue /  |r Catherine of Siena --  |g 6.  |t New seeds of contemplation /  |r Thomas Merton --  |t A brief critical bibliography of Christian 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