Mystics of the Christian Tradition

Name: Mystics of the Christian Tradition
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ISBN: 9780415224680

ISBN-10: 0415224683

ISBN-13: 9780415224680

Edition: 2001

Authors: Steven Fanning

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From visions and voices to self-torture and levitation, mystical phenomena have shaped the Christian heritage. Spanning two thousand years of Christian history,Mystics of the Christian Traditionexamines the lives, times, and mystical experiences of almost one hundred Christian mystics from Jesus to the later Roman Catholic saints. In colorful detail, Fanning explores how mysticism has been defined throughout the ages. St. Francis of Assisi, hearing the voice of God, was led to live with lepers and kiss their sores. Margery Kempe, divinely inspired, took weeping to new decibel levels. Even Joan of Arc and Christopher Columbus might be seen as mystics, spurred to action by divine vision. …

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Steven Fanning is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of A Bishop and His World Before the Gregorian Reform: Hubert of Angers, 1006-1047 (American Philosophical Society) and Mystics of the Christian Tradition (Routledge).



List of plates and timelines


Acknowledgements


Plates


Prologue



Origins


Mysticism in the Greco-Roman world


Mysticism and the foundation of Christianity


The Post-Apostolic Church



The Eastern Church


The Alexandrian Ascetics


The Desert Fathers


The Byzantine Church


The Russian Church



The Western Church in the Middle Ages


The earlier Middle Ages


The New Mysticism


The Beguines


The age of repression and the mystics of the Rhineland and the Low Countries


English mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries


Mystics in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries



Mystics in Early Modern Europe: the Reformation, the effloresence of mysticism in Spain and France


Anabaptists and Lutherans


Spanish mystics of the Golden Age


French mystics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries



Post-Reformation mystics in England and America: the twentieth-century revival of mysticism


English mysticism


American Protestant mysticism


Twentieth-century Catholic mysticism


Twentieth-century mystical writers on mysticism


Epilogue


Notes


Glossary


Timelines


Bibliography


Index