Lectures presented by Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University. Presents lectures by Luke Timothy Johnson, professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, detailing the spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage of these three religions in relation to the mystical experience.
Contents:
pt. 1, Lecture 1.; A way into the mystic ways of the West --; Lecture 2.; Family resemblances and differences --; Lecture 3.; The biblical roots of Western mysticism --; Lecture 4.; Mysticism in early Judaism --; Lecture 5.; Merkabah mysticism --; Lecture 6.; The Hasidim of medieval Germany --; Lecture 7.; The beginnings of Kabbalah --; Lecture 8.; Mature Kabbalah: Zohar --; Lecture 9.; Isaac Luria and Safed spirituality --; Lecture 10.; Sabbatai Zevi and messianic mysticism --; Lecture 11.; The Ba'al Shem Tov and the new Hasidism --; Lecture 12.; Mysticism in contemporary Judaism.; pt. 2, Lecture 13.; Mystical elements in the New Testament --; 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.; pt. 3, Lecture 25.; 20th-century mystics --; Lecture 26.; Muhammad the prophet as mystic --; Lecture 27.; The house of Islam --; Lecture 28.; The mystical sect: Shi'a --; Lecture 29.; The appearance of Sufism --; Lecture 30.; Early Sufi masters --; Lecture 31.; The limits of mysticism: Al-Ghazzali --; Lecture 32.; Two masters, two streams --; Lecture 33.; Sufism in 12th-14th century North Africa --; Lecture 34.; Sufi saints of Persia and India --; Lecture 35.; The continuing Sufi tradition --; Lecture 36.; Mysticism in the West today.
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