Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition write by Harvey D. Egan. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Called in a special way to listen to God's whispers, the mystics amplify not only what it means to be baptized into the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ 'and to having the Trinity living in them 'but also what is deepest in the human spirit. Mystics experience themselves as an infinite question to which only God is the answer; as an immense longing that only Love can quench; as a nothing in the face of the No-Thing. They are God's fools, troubadours 'the great artists and poets of the interior life whose learned ignorance" articulates the art of loving God, neighbor, self, the Church, and the world. In Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition Harvey Egan draws on fifty years of reading and teaching the mystics to sketch the varieties and passion of the mystical life across more than two millennia. Through their stories and words Egan reveals that all were conscious of the paradox of human identity 'supremely and unsurpassably manifested in the God-Man 'that the genuinely human is disclosed only through surrender to God and that the search for God cannot bypass the genuinely human.
Christian Mysticism
Christian Mysticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Mysticism write by Harvey D. Egan SJ. This book was released on 1998-09-16. Christian Mysticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christian mysticism is unique in its view of Jesus' death and resurrection as the very cause and exemplar of the mystical life in all its purity. Jesus' saving death on the cross exemplifies the mystical letting-go of everything consoling, tangible and finite in order to surrender totally to the mystery of the Father's unconditional love. In this introduction to Christian mysticism, Reverend Harvey Egan, S.J. presents four Christian mystics as paradigms of the classical tradition: St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the unknown author of the Cloud of Unknowing. From this foundation he moves to two contemporary figures, Thomas Merton and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, each of whom reflects a contemporary transposition of the two mystical traditions, the apophatic, which emphasizes the radical difference between God and creatures, and the kataphatic, which emphasizes the similarity between God and creatures.
An Anthology of Christian Mysticism
An Anthology of Christian Mysticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Anthology of Christian Mysticism write by Harvey D. Egan. This book was released on 1991. An Anthology of Christian Mysticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A Pueblo book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-615) and index.
The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism
The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism write by Carl McColman. This book was released on 2023. The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From beloved spiritual teacher Carl McColman comes a book about big possibility: the hope of achieving authentic, blissful, experiential union with God. He reveals the various ways Christian mysticism and contemplation have been in dynamic practice through the centuries, proving inspirational for today's seekers, regardless of faith tradition.
Paul: Christianity's Premier Apostolic Mystic
Paul: Christianity's Premier Apostolic Mystic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paul: Christianity's Premier Apostolic Mystic write by Harvey D. Egan. This book was released on 2021-03-26. Paul: Christianity's Premier Apostolic Mystic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harvey Egan argues that the apostle Paul was Christianity’s earliest mystic, and the world’s greatest missionary, one whom scholars estimate walked over fifteen hundred miles—not to mention his dangerous sea journeys—to plant the flag of Lord Jesus in Roman colonies where Caesar was supposedly lord. This book stresses Paul’s mystical consciousness and mystical life—the explicit and direct consciousness of the immediate and direct presence of the Trinity and/or Jesus-Messiah. It underscores mystical experience not only as discrete, individual experiences but also as experience in the sense that an experienced musician instinctively knows and loves music. From the light issuing from the risen Jesus-Messiah, whom he encountered on the Damascus road, Paul mystically read the Jewish Scriptures and comprehended that God consummated Israel’s history through the sending of Jesus-Messiah and the Holy Spirit. Paul’s letters are paradigmatic of the earliest use of the word “mystical,” that is, how the Jewish Scriptures disclose Jesus-Messiah. Thus, Paul, the zealous Jewish Pharisee, grew to understand Christianity as Judaism perfected.
