Crucified with Christ: Meditations on the Passion, Mystical Death, and the Medieval Invention of Psychotherapy

by Dan Merkur

Crucified with Christ offers a fascinating study of the psychoanalytic character of medieval meditation. Most meditation practitioners imagined themselves in the place of an eyewitness to the passion; however, some, including Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis of Assisi, and Bonaventure, introduced meditation from the perspective of Jesus. They felt the imagined crucifixion, passion, and death as experiences of their own and understood them in Pauline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791471055
• ISBN13: 9780791471050
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"