Mysticism, Death and Dying

This book charts the borderline between the nocturnal side of mysticism and the luminous side of death and it illuminates their paradoxical affinities. Within a culture of both denial and despair, it affirms the reality but not the finality of death. If what the generations have called the mystery of death is "the last enemy," a still more mysterious mysticism would anticipate, illuminate and disarm it, issuing in what "eyes have not seen, ears have not heard." This work is contemporary in that it represents a creative and original appropriation of tradition, is spiritually more mystical than devotional-and is ecumenically conversant with and sensitive to the great religious traditions.

About the author

Christopher Nugent is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Colloquy of Poissy: A Study in Sixteenth-Century Ecumenism, and Masks of Satan: The Demonic in History.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Nugent
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.1994
• EAN: 9780791422069
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2206-9
• No. of pages: 142
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 218 g
• Series: Suny Series in Speech Communic; Suny Series in Speech Communic; Suny Western Esoteric Traditio
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Esoterics: general, reference works