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What is a Mystic?

2013

Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism.

01:35 min

18 Major World Religions — Study Starters

Religion is so diverse and nuanced a subject that it’s nearly impossible to encapsulate all of the world’s major religions in just a few words. But we’re going to try anyway. This is an entry point for understanding the basics of the world’s major religions.

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Seeing with Mystic Vision

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.

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Hildegard von Bingen's Mystical Visions: Translated from Scivias

Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von Bingen records her exquisite encounter with divinity, producing a magnificent fusion of divine inspiration and human intellect.

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The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation

In Sufi teaching the human heart is not a fanciful metaphor but an objective organ of intuition and perception. It perceives all that is beautiful, lovely, and meaningful in life—and reflects these spiritual qualities in the world, for the benefit of others.

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For My People

Looks at the history of Black theology, discusses its relationship to white and liberation theology, and identifies new directions for Black churches to take in the eighties.

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Black Theology and Black Power

The classic work of Black Theology—still relevant and challenging after 50 years—with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1969, Black Theology and Black Power provided the first systematic presentation of Black Theology, while also introducing the voice of an African American...

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A Black Theology of Liberation: 50th Anniversary Edition

With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), James Cone emerged as one of the most creative and provocative theological voices in North America.

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The Life of the Spirit: And the Life of Today

In untechnical language, the author indicates the characteristic experiences which are fundamental to the spiritual life in all great religions and the way in which these express themselves in the modern world-view of history, modern psychological inquiry, institutional religion, education, and the...

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The School of Charity

These meditations, based upon the principle articles of the Nicene Creed, were originally presented by Evelyn Underhill (1875 – 1941) at a retreat she conducted at her beloved Pleshy, a small village in England that was the site of her conversion to the Christian faith.

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Worship

This book is a study of how Christian worship, viewed in its deepest sense, is a response of the human to the Eternal. There is first an examination of the basic characteristics, in ritual, symbol, sacrifice, and sacrament. The nature and significance of the Eucharist are thoroughly treated.

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Christian Mysticism