Mysticism: Process and Event? From Causality to Motivation in the Phenomenology of Mystical Experience According to Edith Stein
Religions September 10, 2026 Gwendolyn Araya Gómez
(1) Background: This article situates Edith Stein within the 20th-century debate on the nature of mystical experience, framing it as a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between divine initiative and human freedom, and aims to reassess dominant developmental interpretations of mysticism. It argues that, alongside theological models such as that of Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange,...