Mystics of the Christian tradition / Steven Fanning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fanning, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--History.

Mysticism.

History.

Mystics.

Physical Description:

xix, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Contents:

I Origins 6

Mysticism in the Greco-Roman world 6

Mysticism and the foundation of Christianity 14

The Post-Apostolic Church 20

II The Eastern Church 22

The Alexandrian Ascetics 22

The Desert Fathers 27

The Byzantine Church 30

The Russian Church 45

III The Western Church in the Middle Ages 75

The earlier Middle Ages 75

The New Mysticism 85

The Beguines 94

The age of repression and the mystics of the Rhineland and the Low Countries 101

English mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 119

Mystics in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 128

IV Mystics in Early Modern Europe: the Reformation, the effloresence of mysticism in Spain and France 139

Anabaptists and Lutherans 140

Spanish mystics of the Golden Age 149

French mystics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 158

V Post-Reformation mystics in England and America: the twentieth-century revival of mysticism 175

English mysticism 175

American Protestant mysticism 190

Twentieth-century Catholic mysticism 202

Twentieth-century mystical writers on mysticism 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.

ISBN:

0415224675

0415224683

OCLC:

45610371