Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy

Exploring the meeting of mystical and philosophical theology, Partakers of the Divine shows that Christian philosophical and contemplative practices arose together and that throughout much of Christian history, philosophy, theology, and contemplation remained internal to one another.

Jacob Holsinger Sherman is lecturer in philosophy of religion at the University of Cambridge.He has beenassistant professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies,a visiting fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting lecturer in the philosophy of religion at King's College London. In addition to articles published in journals such as Modern Theology, Heythrop Journal, Spiritus,and Religious Studies, he is co-editor of The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, and Religious Studies (2008). Partakers of the Divine (Fortress,2014) is a revision of a dissertation completed at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Douglas Hedley and Catherine Pickstock.