Into the Dark Night and Back: The Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin

Into the Dark Night and Back is the first comprehensive English language selection of the mystical writings, poems, and letters of the French mystic and exorcist Jean-Joseph Surin, S.J. (1600-65).

About the author

Moshe Sluhovsky is the Paulette and Claude Kelman Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include "Believe not Every Spirit": Demonic Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism and Becoming a New Self: Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism.
Known internationally for her translations of Fernand Braudel and Philippe Ariès, Patricia M. Ranum subsequently translated, edited and presented several seventeenth-century sources, among them the travel account of a Jansenist priest called Charles Le Maistre; the Spiritual Doctrine of Louis Lallemant, a Jesuit; and the memoirs of Jean Le Boindre, a judge in the Paris parlement.

Product details

• Assisted by: Moshe Sluhovsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2018
• EAN: 9789004387645
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38764-5
• No. of pages: 556
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 1157 g
• Series: Jesuit Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity