The Rhineland Mystics: An Anthology - Softcover

 
9781498299930: The Rhineland Mystics: An Anthology
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ISBN 10: 1498299938 ISBN 13: 9781498299930
Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2016

Synopsis

The work of the great Rhineland mystics of the fourteenth century speaks to the modern reader with astonishing directness and clarity. In their emphasis on the personal, inward experience of God and their questioning of the formal, ritualistic side of religion, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec appear almost as contemporaries. This impression is heightened by vivid new translations by Oliver Davies, who also sets the Rhineland mystics in their historical and cultural context and examines why we seem to have a special sensitivity to their voice in spite of a gap of over six hundred years.

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About the Author

Oliver Davies was a lector at the University of Cologne (1982-84). His work as a translator includes Beguine Spirituality: An Anthology, edited by Fiona Bowie (1989).

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Publisher
Wipf and Stock
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1498299938
ISBN 13 
9781498299930
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
138
Editor
Davies Oliver

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