Mystic Union: An Essay in the Phenomenology of MysticismCornell University Press, 1992 - 224 páginas What is it to experience union with God? In this highly original and accessible book, one of our leading philosophers of religion seeks to answer this question by analyzing the several states of mystic union as they are described and explained in the classical primary literature of the Christian mystical tradition. |
Índice
Varieties of Spiritual Closeness | 1 |
Variations on Full Union and Rapture | 22 |
Union without Distinction | 28 |
Perceptions of Spiritual Closeness | 41 |
God as Lover and Mother | 66 |
Walter Stace on Union with God | 87 |
Walter Stace and the Data on Union | 108 |
On the Possibility of Theistic Experience | 116 |
The Phenomenology of Union | 154 |
Supplementary Study 1 R C Zaehner on Theistic | 177 |
Supplementary Study 2 Steven Katz on Christian | 194 |
Supplementary Study 3 Walter Stace on | 208 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Angela awareness Bernard of Clairvaux blue ox Babe body bridal metaphor called chap chapter Christ Christian mystical literature claim coffee maker describe discussion distance sense divine doctrine dream dualistic embrace ence enological example experience description fact feels felt Forgie Forgie's Full Union given God-soul identity Graces of Interior intellectual vision Interior Castle Interior Prayer interpretation introvertive mystical Jewish John of Ruysbroeck Katz Katz's kind mescaline monistic and theistic Mysticism and Philosophy Ninian Smart nursery metaphor object ordinary paragraph passage Paul Elmer perceived phenomenography phenomenological content Plotinus Prayer of Full Prayer of Quiet primary mystical question Rapture referred regards rience Ruysbroeck Saint Section seems sensations sense perception soul soul+ specifically Stace says Stacean subject-object structure suppose Suso taste tells Teresa says theistic experience theistic mystical experience theological theory things Tibbetts tion Tramper's experience union experience union without distinction unity visual perception Zaehner
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