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The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition
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The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition [electronic resource] / edited by Miklós Vassányi, Enikő Sepsi, Anikó Daróczi.
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9783319450698
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Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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XIX, 274 p. 8 illus : online resource.
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Summary
This volume examines mystical experiences as portrayed in various ways by “authors” such as philosophers, mystics, psychoanalysts, writers, and peasant women. These “mystical authors” have, throughout the ages, attempted to convey the unsayable through writings, paintings, or oral stories. The immediate experience of God is the primary source and ultimate goal of these mystical expressions. This experience is essentially ineffable, yet all mystical authors, either consciously or unconsciously, feel an urge to convey what they have undergone in the moments of rapture. At the same time they are in the role of intermediaries: the goal of their self-expression – either written, painted or oral – is to make others somehow understand or feel what they have experienced, and to lead others toward the spiritual goal of human life. This volume studies the mystical experiences and the way they have been described or portrayed in West-European culture, from Antiquity to the present, from an interdisciplinary perspective, and approaches the concept of “immediate experience” in various ways.
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English
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February 02, 2017
Series
Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 18
Contents
I. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
The „Dromenon” in the Hermetic Initiative Texts,Endre Hamvas
Mystical Experience in the Theurgical Practice, Anna Judit Tóth
Gymnastics of the Mind: The Theory of gymnos nous in Maximus the Confessor, Miklós Vassányi
Ascending to the Third Heaven. Csaba Németh
The Experience of God in the Mystical Language of Meister Eckhart, Ferenc Bányai
Hugo van der Goes reading Johannes Tauler? A Literary Context for the Berlin Nativity, Geert Warnar
Mediating the Immediate: Richard Rolle’s Mystical Experience in the Translations of his Self-Revelations, Tamás Karáth
Confined Meditation or Mediated Contemplation, Zsuzsanna Péri-Nagy
Gott, er war zu verwegen. Der Held als Medium der Gotteserfahrung im Tristanstoff des 12. Jahrhunderts, Petra Rosswaag
II. Early Modernity
What is the Purpose of Human Life? Immediate Experience of God in Pico’s Works, Monika Frazer-Imregh
Figure del misticismo di Giordano Bruno, Antonio Dall’Igna
Communicative Experience of God in Prayer, Martin Moors.- What (if Anything) can Justify the Objective Truth of an Alleged Immediate Experience of God? Théogène Havugimana
III. Modern and Postmodern Times
sources de la mystique de Simone Weil, Enikő Sepsi
The Mystical after Auschwitz, Balázs Mezei
“Ein Spiel der Worte, in dem das »Urwirkliche« atmet.” The Birth of the Mystical Word According to Carl Albrecht, Anikó Daróczi
„A World in Which Everything is ‘Here.’” Northrop Frye’s Immanent Vision of the Divine, Sára Tóth
A Lonely Lutheran Mystic in Communist Hungary. The Spiritual Heritage of Bishop Lajos Ordass, Tibor Fabiny.- ‘It is the Mind that Hears it, not the Ears…” An Anthropological Approach to Visions, Irén Lovász
Experience of God, Reflected by Projective Drawings, Zsuzsanna Mirnics – Judit Seres – Zoltán Vass.
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