Mediaeval Mystical Tradition and Saint John of the Cross (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781998492244)

This learned book traces the course of mystical theology which led up to St John of the Cross. It studies Hugh and Richard of St Victor, St Bonaventure, important writings which long passed under his name, Hugh of Balma, a Carthusian Prior it seems of the thirteenth century, Tauler's authentic sermons and his Institutiones, a compilation by St Peter Canisius passing under his name, Ruysbroeck, Denis the Carthusian, Kastl's De Adhaerendo Deo, and finally a brief notice of Spanish writers of the earlier sixteenth century. The writer shows that what we miss most in medieval mystical theology is a clear teaching about the stage which intervenes between the abandonment of meditation and the prayer of quiet. -Downside Review, January 1955

Author: A. Benedictine of Stanbrook Abbey
ISBN-10: 1998492249
ISBN-13: 9781998492244
Publisher: Arouca Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2025
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d