The Cambridge companion to Christian mysticism edited by Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School, Patricia Z. Beckman, St. Olaf College.
Description
Introduction /Amy Hollywood --Early monasticism /Douglas Burton-Christie --Song, experience, and the book in Benedictine monasticism /Amy Hollywood --New forms of religious life in medieval Western Europe /Walter Simons --Early modern reformations /Edward Howells --Apophatic and cataphatic theology /Andrew Louth --Lectio divina /E. Ann Matter --Meditatio/meditation /Thomas H. Bestul --Oratio/prayer /Rachel Fulton Brown --Visio/vision /Veerle Fraeters --Raptus/rapture /Dyan Elliott --Unio mystica/mystical union /Bernard McGinn --Actio et contemplatio/action and contemplation /Charlotte Radler --Latin and the vernaculars /Barbara Newman --Transmission /Sara S. Poor --Writing /Charles M. Stang --The body and its senses /Patricia Dailey --Mysticism and visuality /Jeffrey F. Hamburger --Emotion /Fiona Somerset --Authority /Mary Frohlich, RSCJ --Gender /Alison Weber --Sexuality /Constance M. Furey --Time and memory /Patricia Dailey.
xii, 390 pages :illustrations ;24 cm.