Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thin…
The mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were, writes Karen Armstrong, like "the astronauts of our own day. They broke into a new religion, blazed a new trail to God and to the depths o…
We cannot thinking our way to God," declares the anonymous author of this fourteenth-century masterpiece of Christian mysticism, "because God can be loved, but not thought. This book is a profound …
All people have an innate desire for heightened consciousness. This desire is rooted in the human capacity for mystical experience -- a capacity for moving beyond ordinary life into the realm of th…
This book is the first modern edition of the main body of Mercerburg theology. It includes all the important works, large and small, of John W. Nevin and the other figure, covering the significant …
In nearly one hundred selections spanning seventeen centuries, This book explores how human life is transformed through the search for direct contact with God. Uniquely organized by subject, the vo…
The theology of Martin Luther includes both an external, objective emphasis and an internal, subjective emphasis. Luther studies have paid close attention to the former with its well-known phrases:…
This book is a translation of 37 sermons of Meister Eckhart (1260-1327; "Meister" is German for "Master," and Eckhart was his name); of course, as with Fox's translation of some of Thomas Aquinas's…
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 my…