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What is a Mystic?

2013

Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism.

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How Rachel Held Evans Became the Most Polarizing Woman in Evangelicalism

Talk to an evangelical today and bring up popular author Rachel Held Evans. Chances are, that evangelical will either love or hate her writing. Nearly everyone seems to have an opinion about the 33-year-old woman dubbed “RHE” who has become so polarizing in the past decade.

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Sarah Pulliam Bailey
2015
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Rachel Held Evans, Hero to Christian Misfits

The firebrand writer died unexpectedly over the weekend at the age of 37.

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Emma Green
2019
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Wholehearted Faith

At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel was working on a new book about wholeheartedness.

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Rachel Held Evans, Jeff Chu
2025
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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Drawing on the best in recent scholarship and using her well honed literary expertise, Evans examines some of our favorite Bible stories and possible interpretations, retelling them through memoir, original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay.

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Rachel Held Evans
2025
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Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F.

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Robert M. Wallace
2021
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The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

Exploring the religious impulse known as mysticism the “silent cry” at the heart of all the world’s religions. Mysticism, in the sense of a “longing for God,” has been present in all times, cultures, and religions.

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Dorothee Soelle
2001
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Muddy Mysticism: The Sacred Tethers of Body, Earth, and Everyday

Muddy Mysticism is a spiritual memoir, a lyrical articulation of an emergent feminist mysticism and a heartfelt response to the lack of mystical literature by women who have chosen a life of family, love, work and the world.

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Natalie Bryant Rizzieri
2021
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Signs You Might Be a Mystic

You may know one—or even be one yourself.

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Samantha Vincenty
2019
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What Is Mysticism? Definition and Examples

Ancient and Modern Mysticism and Mystics.

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Lisa Jo Rudy
2019
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Mysticism

Mystical and religious experiences can be classified in various ways, in addition to the built-in difference between mystical super sense-perceptual and sub sense-perceptual experiences.

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Jerome Gellman
2018
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