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 xv
... show that though St Thomas wrote no treatise on mystical theology , he has laid down in many places of various works principles that cover the subject and can be built up into an intellectual fabric in which the descriptive statements ...
... show that though St Thomas wrote no treatise on mystical theology , he has laid down in many places of various works principles that cover the subject and can be built up into an intellectual fabric in which the descriptive statements ...
Strana xxviii
... shows himself the Thomist he was , in that he makes contemplation to be primarily an act of the intellect ' the soul fully intent on God , gazing and loving ' , he describes it , the loving consequent on the seeing . For St Thomas it is ...
... shows himself the Thomist he was , in that he makes contemplation to be primarily an act of the intellect ' the soul fully intent on God , gazing and loving ' , he describes it , the loving consequent on the seeing . For St Thomas it is ...
Strana xxxiv
... shows that more than one path leads to the summit of God's mountain , and that it is a miscon- ception to map it out as if there were only a single track . On the matter of passivity , it is worth noting that Père Joret declines to ...
... shows that more than one path leads to the summit of God's mountain , and that it is a miscon- ception to map it out as if there were only a single track . On the matter of passivity , it is worth noting that Père Joret declines to ...
Strana xxxvi
... shows that by it they mean hardly more than affective prayer or the simpler kind of recollection spoken of by St Teresa in c . xxviii . of the Way ( see above , pp . xvii - xviii . ) . But between mere acquired contemplation and that ...
... shows that by it they mean hardly more than affective prayer or the simpler kind of recollection spoken of by St Teresa in c . xxviii . of the Way ( see above , pp . xvii - xviii . ) . But between mere acquired contemplation and that ...
Strana xxxix
... show the signs of ripeness for the change , should be instructed and encouraged to respond to the leading of the Holy Ghost . This , of course , is the burden of the teaching of St John of the Cross in the outburst on ' direction ...
... show the signs of ripeness for the change , should be instructed and encouraged to respond to the leading of the Holy Ghost . This , of course , is the burden of the teaching of St John of the Cross in the outburst on ' direction ...
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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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