Along with the cultural interest in spirituality and mysticism in their various dimensions and meanings, which has been growing unabated for decades, there is a need for in-depth philosophical and theological reflection on the commonly referred to as mystical experience – an experiential dimension of religious life. In search of a theoretical elaboration of the phenomenon of human mystical...
In the English-speaking world of the first half of the twentieth century Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) was one of the most widely read writers on religion and spiritual practice, in particular on Christian mysticism. No other book of its type met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911. She was conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Aberdeen...
«Mística» y «experiencia mística» son términos tan ambiguos que exigen no solo la precisión, sino aun la construcción de toda una teoría que explicaría su significativa multidimensionalidad. El presente artículo ofrece ciertas indicaciones metodológicas para crear una teoría de la mística y, al mismo tiempo, centra su atención en los aspectos a tener en cuenta a la hora de hablar adecuadamente...
Bernard McGinn is widely considered the preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition. He is a leading authority on the theology of the 14th-century mystic Meister Eckhart as well as on various issues concerning apocalypticism. His current long-range project is a six-volume history of Western Christian mysticism under the general title The Presence of God, four volumes of...