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Title: Light from Light: An Anthology of Christian Mysticism by Louis K. Dupre, James A. Wiseman ISBN: 0-8091-4013-6 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Christian Mysticism Anthology
Comment: As with any anthology, a discriminatory selection process requires an exclusion of some authors and works that some readers may feel should have been included. The editors of this work were painfully aware of this problem, but took into consideration the interests and opinions of their readers when revising and updating this anthology. Those who have the first edition, like myself, will notice that some authors were replaced with others (the editors explain the selection process in the Preface). The first edition included French spiritual writers Fenelon, Guyon and Marie of the Incarnation, as well as Maximus the Confessor, William Law, and Henri Le Saux, the first three omitted because of a lack of response and the last three omitted because of a general lack of recognition. Those that were added this time around include Francis and Clare of Assisi, Francis de Sales, Jeanne de Chantal, and Evelyn Underhill. Those that remained include: Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Pseudo-Dionysius, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, Jan van Ruusbroec, Gregory Palamas, Julian of Norwich, the unknown author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Jonathan Edwards, Therese of Lisieux, and Thomas Merton.
The General Introduction is concise, clear and well-balanced. It notably rejects the perspective that sees mysticism as the essence of all religion (the "perennial philosophy" or "universal mystical religion" view) while, at the same time, affirming that a mystical element belongs to the very essence of religion, along with other elements (one is reminded of Friedrich von Hugel's masterpiece on mysticism). Christianity is recognized as distinct from other theistic and non-theistic (pagan) religions. Yet, it is noted that interaction between the various belief systems has influenced Christian theology in general and Christian mysticism in particular.
This is an excellent, one-of-a-kind anthology. Each spiritual writer is given a fine introduction, followed by an extended excerpt or two from one or more of their literary masterpieces. Many of the excerpts are taken from Paulist Press' The Classics of Western Spirituality series. Each spiritual writer is given a separate Selected Bibliography, divided into Texts (Edition Used, Other Sources) and Studies. For a general introduction to other Christian mystics, see Ursula King's Christian Mystics. Bernard McGinn's The Presence of God series on Western Christian mysticism provides a more in-depth analysis. See especially his first book, The Foundations of Mysticism. McGinn considers Sidney Spencer's Mysticism in World Religions (OP) as one of the more successful overviews of mysticism in the various world religions. Less successful anthologies include Happold's Mysticism and Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy. Huxley's book assumes that there is only one true universal mystical religion that underlies all the various religions. Again, the editors of this anthology, among many others, reject this reductionistic view which has more in common with the monistic or pantheistic/panentheistic religions than the theistic ones, including the unique Trinitarian theism of Biblical Christianity.
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Title: Mystics of the Christian Tradition by Steven Fanning ISBN: 0415224683 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context by Stanley J. Grenz, John R. Franke ISBN: 0664257690 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Psychotherapy: An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice by Anthony Bateman, Dennis Brown, Jonathan Pedder ISBN: 0415205697 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Sabbath : Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives by Wayne Muller ISBN: 0553380117 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Intimate Allies (AACC Library) by Dan B. Allendar, Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman ISBN: 0842318240 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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