Feminism and mysticism have always held a wary view of each other: feminists borrowed from Marx the belief that spirituality functions as a narcotic that anesthetizes the pain of oppression rather ...

Show, don’t explain,” an editor suggested to me. Premature explaining closes off participation; showing invites it. Harvey Egan, S.J., a professor of systematic and mystical theology at Boston College ...

This interdisciplinary conference brings together theologians, philosophers, artists, art historians, historians, poets, musicians, literary scholars, and contemplative practitioners to examine the ...

Andrew Louth, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys. If you are struggling to integrate prayer and theology, this is a book you need to keep at hand. Louth begins with ...

An Anthropocentric-Christocentric Mystagogy. A Study of the Method and basic Horizon of Thought and Experience in the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. (University of Münster Offset, ...

Conventional ascetic, mystical theology is based on an affective, purgative, illumined, unitive rising of the soul to God, following paths set forth by Ss. Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Francis ...

Medieval philosophy stands as a bridge between ancient thought and modern reasoning, where scholars wrestled with questions about God, existence, and human knowledge within monastery walls and ...