Lamm, Julia A.
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the origins, evolution, and contemporary debates relating to Christian mystics, texts, and the movements they inspired.
- Provides a comprehensive and engaging account of Christian mysticism, from its origins right up to the present day
- Draws on the best of current scholarship by bringing together a collection of newly-commissioned readings by leading scholars
- Considers examples of mysticism in both Eastern and Western Christianity
- Offers a brilliant synthesis of the key figures and historical periods of mysticism; its core themes, such as heresy, gender, or aesthetics; and its theoretical considerations, including theological, literary, social scientific, and philosophical approaches
- Features chapters on current debates such as neuroscience and mystical experience, and inter-religious dialogue
Keywords: Christian mysticism, mystics, spirituality, Eastern Western Christianity, heresy, theology, monastic, Christianity, Religion & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Culture
- Editor
- Lamm, Julia A.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
- Page amount
- 672 pages
- Category
- Religions
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118232750
- Printed ISBN
- 9781444332865