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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism presents a comprehensive and engaging account of the origins and evolution of Christian mysticism right up to the current day, discussing the mystics, their texts, and the movements they inspired. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors xi Preface xix 1 A Guide to Christian Mysticism 1 Julia A. Lamm Part I Themes in Christian Mysticism 25 2 The Song of Songs 27 Ann W. Astell and Catherine Rose Cavadini 3 Gender 41 Barbara Newman 4 Platonism 56 Willemien Otten 5 Aesthetics 74 Don E. Saliers 6 Heresy 89 J. Patrick Hornbeck II Part II Early Christian Mysticism 103 7 Mysticism in the New Testament 105 Alan C. Mitchell 8 The Judaean-Jewish Contexts of Early Christian Mysticism 119 Ori Z Soltes 9 "Mysticism" in the Pre-Nicene Era? 133 Bogdan G. Bucur 10 Origen and His Followers 147 Augustine Casiday 11 Negative Theology from Gregory of Nyssa to Dionysius the Areopagite 161 Charles M. Stang 12 Syriac Mysticism 177 Brian E. Colless 13 Mysticism and Contemplation in Augustine's Confessions 190 John Peter Kenney 14 Augustine's Ecclesial Mysticism 202 J. Patout Burns 15 Benedictine Monasticism and Mysticism 216 Columba Stewart, O.S.B. Part III Medieval Mystics and Mystical Traditions 235 16 Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercian Mystical Tradition 237 Brian Patrick McGuire 17 The Victorines 251 Boyd Taylor Coolman 18 The Mystery of Divine/Human Communion in the Byzantine Tradition 267 George E. Demacopoulos 19 Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure 282 Kevin L. Hughes 20 The Nuns of Helfta 297 Anna Harrison 21 Mysticism in the Spiritual Franciscan Tradition 311 Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M. 22 The Low Countries, the Beguines, and John Ruusbroec 329 Helen Rolfson, O.S. F. 23 Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Henry Suso 340 Charlotte C. Radler 24 The Late Fourteenth-Century English Mystics 357 Christiania Whitehead 25 Late Medieval Italian Women Mystic...
