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Mystic Union : An Essay in the Phenomenology of Mysticism / Nelson Pike.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of ReligionPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 2 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9781501737497
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Varieties of Spiritual Closeness -- 2. Variations on Full Union and Rapture -- 3. Perceptions of Spiritual Closeness -- 4. God as Lover and Mother -- 5. Walter Stace on “Union with God” -- 6. Walter Stace and the Data on Union -- 7. On the Possibility of Theistic Experience -- 8. The Phenomenology of Union -- Supplementary Study 1: R. C. Zaehner on Theistic Mystical Experience -- Supplementary Study 2: Steven Katz on Christian Mysticism -- Supplementary Study 3: Walter Stace on the Metaphysics of Union without Distinction -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: What is it to experience union with God? In this highly original and accessible book, one of our leading philosophers of religion seeks to answer this question by analyzing the several states of mystic union as they are described and explained in the classical primary literature of the Christian mystical tradition.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Varieties of Spiritual Closeness -- 2. Variations on Full Union and Rapture -- 3. Perceptions of Spiritual Closeness -- 4. God as Lover and Mother -- 5. Walter Stace on “Union with God” -- 6. Walter Stace and the Data on Union -- 7. On the Possibility of Theistic Experience -- 8. The Phenomenology of Union -- Supplementary Study 1: R. C. Zaehner on Theistic Mystical Experience -- Supplementary Study 2: Steven Katz on Christian Mysticism -- Supplementary Study 3: Walter Stace on the Metaphysics of Union without Distinction -- Works Cited -- Index

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What is it to experience union with God? In this highly original and accessible book, one of our leading philosophers of religion seeks to answer this question by analyzing the several states of mystic union as they are described and explained in the classical primary literature of the Christian mystical tradition.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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