The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism

Book Overview

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in terms of the central contexts, practices and concepts associated with the mystical life in early, medieval and early modern Christianity. This book looks beyond the term 'mysticism', which was an early modern invention,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521682274
• ISBN13: 9780521682275
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"