Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism.
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Today we remember and honor one of the great mystics of the Church, Hildegard of Bingen. Mystics are those who have been gifted with an extraordinary ability to see. They often see and perceive things others do not or cannot see.
Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von Bingen records her exquisite encounter with divinity, producing a magnificent fusion of divine inspiration and human intellect.
I just spent a week at a symposium on the mind-body problem, the deepest of all mysteries. The mind-body problem--which encompasses consciousness, free will and the meaning of life--concerns who we really are.
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A fresh and contemporary translation of one of the best-loved and influential mystical texts of all time, “The Showings of Julian of Norwich” brings the message and spirituality of this 14th-century mystic to 21st-century readers.
Julian, an anchoress who lived in solitude in Norwich, England, in the late 14th century, received the 16 "showings" or revelations of God's love in a series of experienced visions. The first version was a short text.
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