Description: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the origins, evolution, and contemporary debates relating to Christian mystics, texts, and the movements they inspired. * Provides a comprehensive and engaging account of Christian mysticism, from its origins right up to the present day * Draws on the best of current scholarship by bringing together a collection of newly-commissioned readings by leading scholars * Considers examples of mysticism in both Eastern and Western Christianity * Offers a brilliant synthesis of the key figures and historical periods of mysticism; its core themes, such as heresy, gender, or aesthetics; and its theoretical considerations, including theological, literary, social scientific, and philosophical approaches * Features chapters on current debates such as neuroscience and mystical experience, and inter-religious dialogue Julia A. Lamm is Associate Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for research at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. She is also the author of The Living God: Schleiermacher's Theological Appropriation of Spinoza (1996) and co-editor of a forthcoming volume on Schleiermacher, The Christmas Dialogue and Other Selections, for the Classics of Western Spirituality series. She has also published articles on Julian of Norwich. Louise Contributors: Douglas E. Anderson, Loyola University Medical Center, Illinois, USA; Ruth Albrecht, University of Hamburg, Germany; Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame, USA; Bogdan G. Bucur, Duquesne University, USA; J. Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, USA; Peter J. Casarella, DePaul University, USA; Augustine Casiday, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, UK; Catherine Cavadini, University of Notre Dame, USA; Zhuo (Job) Chen, University of Notre Dame, USA; Brian Edric Colless, Massey University, New Zealand; Boyd Taylor Coolman, Boston College, USA; Michael F. Cusato, OFM, Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., USA; George E. Demacopoulos, Fordham University, USA; Stephen M. Fields, SJ, Georgetown University, USA; Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, USA; Paul L. Gavrilyuk, University of St Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; Anna Harrison, Loyola Marymount University, USA; Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA; J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Fordham University, USA; Edward Howells, Heythrop College, University of London, USA; Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University, USA; John Peter Kenney, Saint Michael's College, USA; Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University, USA; Leo D. Lefebure, Georgetown University, USA; Armando Maggi, University of Chicago, USA; Brian Patrick McGuire, Roskilde University, Denmark; Alan C. Mitchell, Georgetown University, USA; Barbara Newman, Northwestern University, USA; Willemien Otten, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA; Charlotte C. Radler, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, USA; Denis Renevey, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Helen Rolfson, OSF, St John's University, Collegeville, USA; Don E. Saliers, Emory University, USA; Leigh Eric Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis, USA; Philip Sheldrake, University of Wales, UK; Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University, USA; Charles M. Stang, Harvard Divinity School, USA; Columba Stewart, Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, USA; Dennis Tamburello, OFM, Siena College, Loudonville, NY, USA; James Wetzel, Villanova University, USA; Christiania Whitehead, University of Warwick, UK; Wendy M. Wright, Creighton University, USA
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EAN: 9781444332865
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Item Length: 24.4 cm
Book Title: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism
Item Height: 249mm
Item Width: 180mm
Author: Julia A. Lamm
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Religious History, Christianity
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 1340g
Number of Pages: 672 Pages