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 xvi
... things take place at the moment of this prayer . First : the mind is roughly stricken , as it were , with a kind of paralysis ; it is powerless to devote itself to things divine , or to have any experience of them ; before the moment of ...
... things take place at the moment of this prayer . First : the mind is roughly stricken , as it were , with a kind of paralysis ; it is powerless to devote itself to things divine , or to have any experience of them ; before the moment of ...
Strana xvii
... things : the will alone is drawn towards God . When these three signs are found together , it is impossible to have any doubt . The Holy Spirit is present , and bestowing the grace of prayer , but not in the same way as before . If the ...
... things : the will alone is drawn towards God . When these three signs are found together , it is impossible to have any doubt . The Holy Spirit is present , and bestowing the grace of prayer , but not in the same way as before . If the ...
Strana xxii
... thing ; but in the Castle , her last word on the things of mystical theology , she definitely distinguishes them under the ' Fourth Mansion ' , so that in it are included two quite different kinds or states of prayer , the prayer of ...
... thing ; but in the Castle , her last word on the things of mystical theology , she definitely distinguishes them under the ' Fourth Mansion ' , so that in it are included two quite different kinds or states of prayer , the prayer of ...
Strana xxiii
... things and fix its gaze on heavenly ; and the first step is the stripping the mind of all images and the ' hushing ' of the faculties.5 It is recognized by Poulain and Farges that with St Teresa came in a new idea of the supernatural ...
... things and fix its gaze on heavenly ; and the first step is the stripping the mind of all images and the ' hushing ' of the faculties.5 It is recognized by Poulain and Farges that with St Teresa came in a new idea of the supernatural ...
Strana xxiv
... things most difficult to express . But it cannot be denied that there was something in her physical and psychological make - up which rendered her temperamentally peculiarly responsive to onrushes of spiritual influence , and liable to ...
... things most difficult to express . But it cannot be denied that there was something in her physical and psychological make - up which rendered her temperamentally peculiarly responsive to onrushes of spiritual influence , and liable to ...
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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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