Overview
This book examines the relationship between transcendence and immanence within Christian mystical and apophatic writings. Original essays from a range of leading, established, and emerging scholars in the field focus on the roles of language, signs, and images, and consider how mystical theology might contribute to contemporary reflection on the Word incarnate. This collection of essays re-examines works from such canonical figures as Eckhart, Augustine, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas of Cusa, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich, along with the philosophical thought of Iris Murdoch, Jacques Lacan, and Martin Heidegger, and the contemporary phenomena of the Emerging Church. Presenting new readings of key ideas in mystical theology, and renewed engagement with the visionary and the everyday, the therapeutic and the transformative, these essays question how we might think about what may lie between transcendence and immanence.
Full Product Details
Author: Louise Nelstrop ,
Simon D. Podmore ,
Asst Prof Patricia Z. Beckman ,
Professor Mark A. McIntosh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.612kg
ISBN: 9781409456704
ISBN 10: 1409456706
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 28 October 2013
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This remarkable collection of essays is one of a pair that opens a potentially very fruitful series . . . This volume is of a very high quality, bringing together the work of leading English scholars in the field of mysticism - Stefan Gillow Reynolds in The Journal of Theological Studies
"""This remarkable collection of essays is one of a pair that opens a potentially very fruitful series . . . This volume is of a very high quality, bringing together the work of leading English scholars in the field of mysticism"" – Stefan Gillow Reynolds in The Journal of Theological Studies"
Author Information
Louise Nelstrop is a Lecturer in Christian Spirituality and Director of Spirituality Programmes in Sarum College Salisbury. Her research interests include the English Mystics, Theoretical and Philosophical approaches to Mysticism, Cistercian and Victorine Spirituality and the Emerging Church. Her recently publications include Christian Mysticism: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches and Evaluating Fresh Expressions: Explorations in Emerging Church with Martin Percy (eds). Simon D. Podmore is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University. His research interests are in the areas of Soren Kierkegaard; Martin Luther; Jewish and Christian Mysticism; the Numinous and religious experience; sin and forgiveness; and the interface of theology, philosophy, psychotherapy and pastoral care. His recent publications include Kierkegaard & the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss and Struggling With God: A Theology of Spiritual Trial (forthcoming). Simon D. Podmore, Mark Edwards, Benjamin DeSpain, Johannes Hoff, Philip McCosker, Ben Morgan, Markus Vinzent, Duane Williams, Edward Howells, Susannah Ticciati, Peter M. Tyler, Louise Nelstrop, Donna J. Lazenby.
