Western Mysticism: Augustine, Gregory, and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative LifeCourier Corporation, 1. 1. 2003 - 242 strán (strany) This collection presents the writings of three of Western Christianity's most revered teachers of mystical theology. In addition to personal accounts by Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory, and Saint Bernard of their religious experiences, Western Mysticism discusses speculative contemplation, defines mysticism and its characteristics, and contrasts contemplative and active lives. |
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Strana xxxi
... reason , therefore , to be afraid of the will's idleness in this state , for if it ceases to elicit acts directed by particular know- ledge , so far as they depend on itself , God inebriates it with infused love through the knowledge ...
... reason , therefore , to be afraid of the will's idleness in this state , for if it ceases to elicit acts directed by particular know- ledge , so far as they depend on itself , God inebriates it with infused love through the knowledge ...
Strana xxxvi
... reasons that make perfection and heroic sanctity so rare . This is the theory propounded by the Dominicans as being that of St Thomas , or at least the outcome of his teaching . It finds its most vigorous exponent in Père Garrigou ...
... reasons that make perfection and heroic sanctity so rare . This is the theory propounded by the Dominicans as being that of St Thomas , or at least the outcome of his teaching . It finds its most vigorous exponent in Père Garrigou ...
Strana xl
... reason why so many of the spiritual writers of the Society have looked on meditation as the normal life- long mental prayer of devout souls . But if Père Poulain's account of the Exercises be correct , this difficulty vanishes . He says ...
... reason why so many of the spiritual writers of the Society have looked on meditation as the normal life- long mental prayer of devout souls . But if Père Poulain's account of the Exercises be correct , this difficulty vanishes . He says ...
Strana xli
... reason being that the first is supernatural by its very nature , the others supernatural only in their mode - sight and life being natural things ( pp . 9-10 , 42 ) . In this he has St Paul with him , who says that charity is more ...
... reason being that the first is supernatural by its very nature , the others supernatural only in their mode - sight and life being natural things ( pp . 9-10 , 42 ) . In this he has St Paul with him , who says that charity is more ...
Strana lii
... reason . Raise yourself above your reason , above your human intelligence which nourishes itself on phantasms , images , sensible species ; descend into the fund and the 1 See article by Gardeil , ' Le " Mens " d'après S. Augustin et S ...
... reason . Raise yourself above your reason , above your human intelligence which nourishes itself on phantasms , images , sensible species ; descend into the fund and the 1 See article by Gardeil , ' Le " Mens " d'après S. Augustin et S ...
Obsah
SPECULATIVE CONTEMPLATION | 1 |
WHAT MYSTICISM IS | 3 |
ST AUGUSTINE | 17 |
ST GREGORY THE GREAT | 63 |
ST BERNARD | 93 |
SUMMARY | 121 |
EPILOGUE | 133 |
THE VALIDITY OF THE MYSTICS CLAIM | 135 |
PRACTICAL THE CONTEMPLATIVE AND ACTIVE LIVES | 155 |
ST GREGORY THE GREAT | 169 |
ST BERNARD | 189 |
SUMMARY | 199 |
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