ISSN 1533-1709
6 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2005-2025
Spiritus September 1, 2025 Ryan Coyne
Abstract: McGinn’s Modern Mystics serves as a coda to his multivolume history, The Presence of God , but also stands as an introduction of sorts. It situates that historical project among the mystical authors of the twentieth century, but more importantly it begins to address the deeper connection between history and theology manifested in McGinn’s scholarship. To see this, one can attend to...
Spiritus September 1, 2023 G. M. Young
Reviewed by: Modern Mystics: An Introduction by Bernard McGinn Glenn Young (bio) Modern Mystics: An Introduction. By Bernard McGinn. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2023. viii + 340 pp. $49.95. I admit to having felt some disappointment when Bernard McGinn announced that the seventh volume of his landmark study of Western Christian mysticism—The Presence of God—would bring the series to...
Spiritus September 1, 2011 Brenna Moore
Reviewed by: Modernists and Mystics Brenna Moore (bio) Modernists and Mystics. Edited by C.J.T. Talar. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. 152 pp. $44.95 The term "Catholic modernist" typically conjures images of turn-of-the century marginalized pariahs, fixated on the Church's relationship with critical exegesis, philosophy, or science. C. J.T. Talar challenges...
Spiritus March 1, 2011 Ann Gleig
Reviewed by: The Participatory Turn: Thinking Beyond the Philosophies of Consciousness and Constructivism in the Study of Religion Ann Gleig (bio) The Participatory Turn: Thinking Beyond the Philosophies of Consciousness and Constructivism in the Study of Religion. Edited by Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. 396 pp. $34.95 If we recognize the radically creative...
Spiritus March 1, 2008 Douglas Burton‐Christie
Lost—Found Douglas Burton-Christie St. Augustine famously described the soul's ultimate meeting with God as a homecoming, a recognition of something known and familiar that has been lost. His uncanny sense of knowing what he was looking for even in the midst of the most intense experience of dislocation is part of what gives the Confessions such evocative power. It captures the strange but...
Spiritus March 1, 2005 Beverly J. Lanzetta 3 citations
Accounts within the Christian mystical tradition of moral behavior in the lives of the great mystics are manifold, among them the suffering gentleness of Francis who tended to beggars, lepers, and the crippled; the speculative incisiveness of Meister Eckhart who demarcated the importance of helping those in need from the practice of mystical piety; and the verdant voice of Catherine of Siena...