Quakers Reading Mystics

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37229-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 208 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies

Over the centuries, Quakers have read non-Quakers regarded as mystics. This study explores the reception of mystical texts among the Religious Society of Friends, focusing in particular on Robert Barclay and John Cassian, Sarah Lynes Grubb and Jeanne Guyon, Caroline Stephen and Johannes Tauler, Rufus Jones and Jacob Boehme, and Teresina Havens and Buddhist texts selected by her. Points of connection include the nature of apophatic prayer, suffering and annihilation of self, mysticisms of knowing and of loving, liberal Protestant attitudes toward theosophical systems, and interfaith encounter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birkel, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Quäker, Religiöse Gesellschaft der Freunde

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Birkel, Ph.D. (1986), Harvard University, is Professor of Christian Spirituality at the Earlham School of Religion. He has published books and articles on Quaker spirituality and theology, including Silence and Witness (Orbis, 2004).