The Wiley–Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism

<p>Notes on Contributors xi</p>
<p>Preface xix</p>
<p>1 A Guide to Christian Mysticism 1<br />Julia A. Lamm</p>
<p>Part I Themes in Christian Mysticism 25</p>
<p>2 The Song of Songs 27<br />Ann W. Astell and Catherine Rose Cavadini</p>
<p>3 Gender 41<br />Barbara Newman</p>
<p>4 Platonism 56<br />Willemien Otten</p>
<p>5 Aesthetics 74<br />Don E. Saliers</p>
<p>6 Heresy 89<br />J. Patrick Hornbeck II</p>
<p>Part II Early Christian Mysticism 103</p>
<p>7 Mysticism in the New Testament 105<br />Alan C. Mitchell</p>
<p>8 The Judaean Jewish Contexts of Early Christian Mysticism 119<br />Ori Z Soltes</p>
<p>9 Mysticism in the Pre–Nicene Era? 133<br />Bogdan G. Bucur</p>
<p>10 Origen and His Followers 147<br />Augustine Casiday</p>
<p>11 Negative Theology from Gregory of Nyssa to Dionysius the Areopagite 161<br />Charles M. Stang</p>
<p>12 Syriac Mysticism 177<br />Brian E. Colless</p>
<p>13 Mysticism and Contemplation in Augustine s Confessions 190<br />John Peter Kenney</p>
<p>14 Augustine s Ecclesial Mysticism 202<br />J. Patout Burns</p>
<p>15 Benedictine Monasticism and Mysticism 216<br />Columba Stewart, O.S.B.</p>
<p>Part III Medieval Mystics and Mystical Traditions 235</p>
<p>16 Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercian Mystical Tradition 237<br />Brian Patrick McGuire</p>
<p>17 The Victorines 251<br />Boyd Taylor Coolman</p>
<p>18 The Mystery of Divine/Human Communion in the Byzantine Tradition 267<br />George E. Demacopoulos</p>
<p>19 Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure 282<br />Kevin L. Hughes</p>
<p>20 The Nuns of Helfta 297<br />Anna Harrison</p>
<p>21 Mysticism in the Spiritual Franciscan Tradition 311<br />Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M.</p>
<p>22 The Low Countries, the Beguines, and John Ruusbroec 329<br />Helen Rolfson, O.S.F.</p>
<p>23 Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Henry Suso 340<br />Charlotte C. Radler</p>
<p>24 The Late Fourteenth–Century English Mystics 357<br />Christiania Whitehead</p>
<p>25 Late Medieval Italian Women Mystics 373<br />Armando Maggi</p>
<p>26 Nicholas of Cusa and the Ends of Medieval Mysticism 388<br />Peter J. Casarella</p>
<p>Part IV Mysticism and Modernity 405</p>
<p>27 The Protestant Reformers on Mysticism 407<br />Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.</p>
<p>28 Spanish Mysticism and Religious Renewal: Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and John of the Cross 422<br />Edward Howells</p>
<p>29 Seventeenth–Century French Mysticism 437<br />Wendy M. Wright</p>
<p>30 The Making of Mysticism in the Anglo–American World: From Henry Coventry to William James 452<br />Leigh Eric Schmidt</p>
<p>31 We Kiss Our Dearest Redeemer through Inward Prayer : Mystical Traditions in Pietism 473<br />Ruth Albrecht</p>
<p>32 Nineteenth– to Twentieth–Century Russian Mysticism 489<br />Paul L. Gavrilyuk</p>
<p>33 Modern Catholic Theology and Mystical Tradition 501<br />Stephen M. Fields, S.J.</p>
<p>34 Mystics of the Twentieth Century 515<br />Mary Frohlich, R.S.C.J.</p>
<p>Part V Critical Perspectives on Mysticism 531</p>
<p>35 A Critical Theological Perspective 533<br />Philip Sheldrake</p>
<p>36 What the Saints Know: Quasi–Epistemological Reflections 550<br />James Wetzel</p>
<p>37 Mysticism and the Vernacular 562<br />Denis Renevey</p>
<p>38 The Social Scientific Study of Christian Mysticism 577<br />Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and Zhuo Chen</p>
<p>39 Neuroscience 592<br />Douglas E. Anderson</p>
<p>40 Christian Mysticism in Interreligious Perspective 610<br />Leo D. Lefebure</p>
<p>Index 626</p>