Lectures presented by Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University. Lectures 13-24 in a series of 36 half-hour lectures.
Contents:
Lecture 24. Mystical expressions in Protestantism. Lecture 14. Gnostic Christianity -- Lecture 15. The spirituality of the desert -- Lecture 16. Shaping Christian mysticism in the East -- Lecture 17. Eastern monks and the Hesychastic tradition -- Lecture 18. The mysticism of Western monasticism -- Lecture 19. Medieval female mystics -- Lecture 20. Mendicants as mystics -- Lecture 21. English mystics of the 14th century -- Lecture 22. 15th- and 16th-century Spanish mystics -- Lecture 23. Mysticism among Protestant reformers -- Lecture 24. Mystical expressions in Protestantism.
Summary:
Examines the spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage of these three religions in relation to the mystical experience.
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