Screen LibraryThe Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition /
This volume examines mystical experiences as portrayed in various ways by authors such as philosophers, mystics, psychoanalysts, writers, and peasant women. These mystical authors have, throughout the ages, attempted to convey the unsayable through writings, paintings, or oral stories. The immediate...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45069-8 |
| Summary: |
This volume examines mystical experiences as portrayed in various ways by authors such as philosophers, mystics, psychoanalysts, writers, and peasant women. These mystical authors have, throughout the ages, attempted to convey the unsayable through writings, paintings, or oral stories. The immediate experience of God is the primary source and ultimate goal of these mystical expressions. This experience is essentially ineffable, yet all mystical authors, either consciously or unconsciously, feel an urge to convey what they have undergone in the moments of rapture. At the same time they are in |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(xix,274pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319450698 |
| Index Number: | BL51 |
| CLC: | B928.5 |
| Contents: | I. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The Dromenon in the Hermetic Initiative Texts,Endre Hamvas -- Mystical Experience in the Theurgical Practice, Anna Judit T th -- Gymnastics of the Mind: The Theory of gymnos nous in Maximus the Confessor, Mikl s Vass nyi -- Ascending to the Third Heaven. Csaba N meth -- The Experience of God in the Mystical Language of Meister Eckhart, Ferenc B nyai -- Hugo van der Goes reading Johannes Tauler? A Literary Context for the Berlin Nativity, Geert Warnar -- Mediating the Immediate: Richard Rolle s Mystical Experience in the Translations of his Self-Revela |