The Divine Ideas Tradition in Christian Mystical Theology

by Mark A McIntosh

Book Overview

By the time of early modernity, a widely deployed tenet of Christian thought had begun to vanish. The divine ideas tradition, the teaching that all beings have an eternal existence as aspects of God's mind, had functioned across a wide range of central Christian doctrines, providing Christian thinkers and mystical teachers with a powerful theological capacity: to illuminate the Trinitarian ground of all creatures, and to renew the divine truth of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199580812
• ISBN13: 9780199580811
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"