The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism by Lamm, Julia A.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781119283508)

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism by Lamm, Julia A.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism

$60.95
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism by Lamm, Julia A.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism

$60.95
Format: Paperback
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the origins, evolution, and contemporary debates relating to Christian mystics, texts, and the movements they inspired.

  • Provides a comprehensive and engaging account of Christian mysticism, from its origins right up to the present day
  • Draws on the best of current scholarship by bringing together a collection of newly-commissioned readings by leading scholars
  • Considers examples of mysticism in both Eastern and Western Christianity
  • Offers a brilliant synthesis of the key figures and historical periods of mysticism; its core themes, such as heresy, gender, or aesthetics; and its theoretical considerations, including theological, literary, social scientific, and philosophical approaches
  • Features chapters on current debates such as neuroscience and mystical experience, and inter-religious dialogue


Author: Julia A. Lamm
ISBN-10: 1119283507
ISBN-13: 9781119283508
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2017
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.80w x 1.30d
By Julia A. Lamm
By Julia A. Lamm
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Julia A. Lamm is Associate Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for research at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. She is also the author of The Living God: Schleiermacher's Theological Appropriation of Spinoza (1996) and co-editor of a forthcoming volume on Schleiermacher, The Christmas Dialogue and Other Selections, for the Classics of Western Spirituality series. She has also published articles on Julian of Norwich.

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