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How do Christians keep from losing their faith when they discover that other faiths are as justified as their own? Mark McLeod-Harrison draws on his training in analytic philosophy and his knowledge of Christian mysticism to provide a compelling analysis of, and unique solution to, the problem religious diversity poses for Christians. In Repairing Eden, McLeod-Harrison describes this dilemma as an existential problem internal to the Christian faith. He suggests that Christian humility and Christian mysticism can provide a joint path toward a kind of metaphysical certainty - the mystic path, the path of bearing one's own cross - that can become a means of more deeply knowing God. Repairing Eden weaves theology, philosophy, and pastoral concerns into a spiritual-philosophical solution to a deeply important challenge to Christian faith.

Christianity and other religions. --- Humility --- Mysticism. --- Religious pluralism. --- Pluralism (Religion) --- Pluralism --- Religion --- Religions --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Relations --- History

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Christian spirituality --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Spain --- #KVHA:Spiritualiteit; Spanje --- Christian literature, Spanish --- Mysticism --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Spanish Christian literature --- Spanish literature --- History and criticism --- History&delete& --- Sources --- History

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Philosophy and religion --- Mysticism --- Philosophie et religion --- Mysticisme --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Philosophy and Theology --- 248.2 --- Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme --- 248.2 Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme --- Congrès --- Philosophy and theology --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion and philosophy --- Religion --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Expérience religieuse

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This book argues that mystical doctrines and practices initiate parallel transformative processes in the consciousness of mystics. This thesis is supported through a comparative analysis of Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen (rdzogs-chen) and the medieval German mysticism of Eckhart, Suso, and Tauler. These traditions are interpreted using a system/cybernetic model of consciousness. This model provides a theoretical framework for assessing the cognitive effects of mystical doctrines and practices and showing how different doctrines and practices may nevertheless initiate common transformative processes. This systems approach contributes to current philosophical discourse on mysticism by (1) making possible a precise analysis of the cognitive effects of mystical doctrines and practices, and (2) reconciling mystical heterogeneity with the essential unity of mystical traditions.

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Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material. This volume seeks to explore the origins, context and content of the anchoritic and mystical texts produced in England during the Middle Ages and to examine the ways in which these texts may be studied and taught today. It foregrounds issues of context and interaction, seeking both to position medieval spiritual writings against a surprisingly wide range of contemporary contexts and to face the challenge of making these texts accessible to a wider readership. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field, incorporate historical, literary and theological perspectives and offer critical approaches and background material which will inform both research and teaching. The approaches to Middle English anchoritic and mystical texts suggested in this volume are many and varied. In this they reflect the richness and complexity of the contexts from which these writings emerged. These essays are offered aspart of an ongoing exploration of aspects of medieval spirituality which, while posing a considerable challenge to modern readers, also offer invaluable insights into the interaction between medieval culture and belief. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Santha Bhattachariji, Denis Renevey, A.C. Spearing, Thomas Bestul, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Barry A. Windeatt, Alexandra Barratt, R.S. Allen, Roger Ellis, Ann M. Hutchison, Marion Glasscoe, Catherine Innes-Parker

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Mysticism --- Hermits --- History and criticism. --- History --- Anchorites --- Eremites --- Persons --- Hermitages --- Recluses --- Study and teaching. --- Anchoritic Texts. --- Medieval English. --- Middle Ages. --- Mystical Literature.