Mysticism, Death and Dying

AvChristopher Nugent

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

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This book charts the borderline between the nocturnal side of mysticism and the luminous side of death and it illuminates their paradoxical affinities. Within a culture of both denial and despair, it affirms the reality but not the finality of death. If what the generations have called the mystery of death is "the last enemy," a still more mysterious mysticism would anticipate, illuminate and disarm it, issuing in what "eyes have not seen, ears have not heard." This work is contemporary in that it represents a creative and original appropriation of tradition, is spiritually more mystical than devotional-and is ecumenically conversant with and sensitive to the great religious traditions.

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Utgivningsdatum:1994-10-25
Vikt:354 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
Antal sidor:142
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791422052

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Christopher Nugent is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Colloquy of Poissy: A Study in Sixteenth-Century Ecumenism, and Masks of Satan: The Demonic in History.

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"This book illuminates the mysterious affinity between mysticism and death. There are many books today on death and dying, but none like this one." — Bernadette Roberts

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Foreword 1. Initiation: The Mystery of Death PrefatoryWhat is Mysticism?Mysticism and DeathA Note on the Problem of EvilThe Wound of LoveReflections to the ReaderReflections on the Ecumenicity of DeathThe Comedy of Resurrection2. Illumination: Nocturne PrefatoryNight and Negative TheologySt. John of the CrossThe Cloud of UnknowingNegative Theology ReviewedPrayer, Meditation, and Contemplation"Yes,"The Prayer of Suffering, or Purgatory on Earth: St.Thérèse and Etty HillesumThe Night is the Time of Salvation.3. Immolation: The Sacrifice PrefatoryThe SacrificeOur Sacrifice and the Sacrifice of ChristPurgatory on Earth: St. Catherine of Genoa and Caryll HouselanderConcluding Reflections: Glory.Afterword Notes Bibliography Index