Browsing by Keyword "mysticism"
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Blind Visions: Psychedelics, Thomas Merton, and Reformed Mysticism
The author shares his Christian faith journey and its impact on his psychedelic thought. The paper is a theological conversation with Thomas Merton’s books, essays, letters, journals, and monastic lectures and the Reformed ... -
The Force of Union: Affect and Ascent in the Theology of Bonaventure
(2012-08-08)The image of love as a burning flame is so widespread in the history of Christian literature as to appear inevitable. But as this dissertation explores, the association of amor with fire played a precise and wide-ranging ... -
Grounding Community: On the Reception of Eckhartian Mysticism in Reformist and Revolutionary Texts From the Late Middle Ages to the Fin de Siècle.
(2023-11-21)This project examines how texts in the tradition of Meister Eckhart became productive in the conceptualization, imagination, and creation of new communities. It explores the influence of mystical thought on reformist, ... -
Mystical Androgyny: Annihilation and Deification in Medieval Women's Visionary Literature
(2023-05-02)In women’s visionary literature dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Latin Christendom, a clear pattern emerges when one analyzes the trajectory of self-annihilation to authoritative self-assertion as a ... -
Rhetorics of Sanctity: Christina of Hane in the Early Modern Period with a Comparison to a Mary Magdalene Legend
(Maney Publishing, 2014)This study presents the particular case of the medieval mystic Christina of Hane in the Early Modern transmission to uncover the dynamics of sanctity across traditional period boundaries. It discusses the interest of copying ... -
Trusting Temptation: Interpreting Women's Visionary Writing in Late-Medieval England
(2021-09-09)At the end of the European Middle Ages, Christian women increasingly attested to visions from God, composing one of the most important and distinctive bodies of early women’s writing. Meanwhile, male churchmen refined their ... -
Voyager: A Personal Cosmology
After a spontaneous spiritual experience, atheist Lóre Stevens discerned a worldview grounded in universal interdependence. When humanity forgets that we are part of a greater whole, we enact cruelty and suffering on each ...