Love hrings it ahout that lovers are directed I'lOI only toward themselves, hut also toward OZIZET'J'. — Thomas Aquinas REAL LOVE LEADS BEYOND THE LOVERS to others. Love expands. Love is inclusive. It enlarges the soul; ...
Phoebe Palmer was a nineteenth-century evangelist whose writings reveal a profound spirituality grounded in John Wesley's ideal of “Christian perfection.” Born into a devout Methodist family, Palmer and her husband became itinerant ...
Carl McColman, author of The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, organizes the mystics into nine categories: visionaries, confessors, lovers, poets, saints, heretics, wisdom keepers, soul-friends, and unitives.
This is an outstanding entryway into the rich and deep world of Christian mysticism, recommended for readers of all backgrounds." - Michael Sells (Professor of Comparative Religions, Haverford College).
As Matthew Fox notes, when an aging Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets, he replied, “I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life.” The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of ...
Christian Mysticstells the story of sixty men and women whose mystical devotion to God transformed the times in which they lived and still affects our present-day search for spiritual meaning.