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    Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation [of the person] for...
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    Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is...
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  • religions. This page focuses on examples primarily relating to Christian expressions of mysticism amongst women, their lives, and their significant contributions...
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  • Christian Kabbalah arose during the Renaissance due to Christian scholars' interest in the mysticism of Jewish Kabbalah, which they interpreted according...
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  • Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism which...
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  • Christian mysticism refers to the development of mystical practices and theory within Christianity. It has often been connected to mystical theology,...
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  • God-man (Koinē Greek: θεάνθρωπος, romanized: theánthropos; Latin: deus homo) is a term which refers to the incarnation and the hypostatic union of Christ...
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    religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911. Underhill was born in Wolverhampton...
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    but this has not been proven. Christianity portal Christian meditation music Christian mysticism (contemplation) Daily devotional The Cloud of Unknowing...
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    Guy G. (2005). Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-13635-5. "Esoteric". Oxford English Dictionary...
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    idea in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism and Christian theology. Originally carrying a meaning of "cleverness, skill", the later...
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    romanized: merkāḇā, lit. 'chariot') or Merkavah mysticism (lit. Chariot mysticism) is a school of early Jewish mysticism, c. 100 BCE – 1000 CE, centered on visions...
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    books of Moses) and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology. The Zohar contains discussions...
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  • Church (though it nearly became a separate sect) and a center of German mysticism. It was founded between 1339 and 1343 during the Avignon Papacy of the...
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    Quakers (redirect from Quaker Christian)
    belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members of these movements ("the Friends") are generally...
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  • spiritual man is one who is Christian 'more abundantly and deeper than others'." The word was also associated with mysticism and quietism, and acquired...
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  • Out-of-body experience Anthroposophy Christian mysticism Christian mystics Esotericism Hermeticism List of occultists Mysticism Salvation Spiritualism Western...
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  • Christian mysticism in ancient Africa took form in the desert, as part of a long-reaching Judeo-Christian-Islamic mystical tradition. In the Judeo-Christian...
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  • National mysticism (German Nationalmystik) or mystical nationalism is a form of nationalism which raises the nation to the status of numen or divinity...
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  • Henosis (redirect from Oneness (mysticism))
    further developed in the Corpus Hermeticum, in Christian theology, Islamic Mysticism, soteriology and mysticism, and is an important factor in the historical...
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  • Bernard McGinn (theologian) (category Christian mysticism)
    A specialist in Medieval mysticism, McGinn is widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition. He is best known...
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    priests who identify as Christo-Pagan. Christianity and paganism Christian mysticism Christian views on magic Esoteric Christianity Semitic neopaganism Slavic...
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    divine conceptualism), while Neoplatonism became a major influence on Christian mysticism in the West through Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Catholic Church...
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    Judeo-Christian religion and Age of Enlightenment rationalism.[citation needed] It has influenced various forms of Western philosophy, mysticism, religion...
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  • Press. Sluhovsky, Moshe (2007). Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago...
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  • Dark Night of the Soul (category Christian mysticism)
    moral development Nigredo Psychology of religion Divinization (Christian) In Mysticism, part II, chapter 9, Underhill quotes John: "This," says St. John...
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  • participation is righteous living. Christian meditation Pauline Christianity Atonement in Christianity Soteriology Christian mysticism Stephen Westerholm (2015)...
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  • The Mirror of Simple Souls (category Christian mysticism)
    The Mirror of Simple Souls is an early 14th-century work of Christian mysticism by Marguerite Porete dealing with the workings of Divine Love. Love in...
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  • literally 'bride-mysticism', often rendered 'bridal mysticism' or 'nuptial mysticism' in English, was a thirteenth-century Christian spiritual movement...
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    Teresa of Ávila (category 16th-century Christian mystics)
    Castle, and The Way of Perfection, are prominent works on Christian mysticism and Christian meditation practice. In her autobiography, written as a defense...
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