Publication
Imprint: Bloomington, Ind. : World Wisdom, c2003. Series: Treasurers of the World's Religions Series. Responsibility: Compiled and edited by James A. Cutsinger. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, index.
Call number
GT-C-G / Cutsi
ISBN
0941532410 / 9780941532419
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Description: This profound and insightful book includes selected writings of Christian sages and saints from the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and Celtic branches of the Christian tradition. They are presented from a perspective of 'the transcendent unity of denominations'.
Table of Contents: Introduction --
Severity: Breaking the chains / Jakob Boehme.
The ladder of graces / Theophanis the Monk.
Transposition. Unseen warfare.
Death / St. Thomas à Kempis.
Pure fire / Hugh of St Victor.
What more must I do? / The Desert Father.
The ceremony of substitution / Charles Williams.
My desire has been crucified / St. Ignatios of Antioch --
II. Simplicity: Drawn by the flames / St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
Descending with the breath / Nikiphoros the Athonite.
So many names / Jean-Pierre de Caussade.
What dreams may come / St. Diadochos of Photiki.
I sleep but my heart waketh / St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
Nakedness and sacrifice / Jean Borella.
The Tao / Hieromonk Damascene.
Go not but stay / St. Francis of Sales --
III. Purity: The center of the soul / William Law.
True prayer / Evagrios the Solitary.
The Tabernacle of the Covenant / Richard of St. Victor.
Rank upon rank / St. Clement of Alexandria.
Ignorance is bliss / Nicholas of Cusa.
Opening the tomb / St. Maximos the Confessor.
The virginal paradise / St. Louis Marie de Montfort.
Clothed in Christ / St. Symeon the New Theologian. --
VIII. Unicity: A reply to active persons / The Cloud of Unknowing.
Closing to a bud again / Lilian Staveley.
The joyful instant / St. Augustine.
One and the same mind / Origen.
Awareness and return / Swami Abhishiktananda.
Waylessness / John of Ruysbroeck.
Hidden beauty / St. Dionysios the Areopagite.
Essence Is simple / St. Nikolai Velimirovich --
IX. Identity: The flight of the eagle / John Scotus Eriugena.
More God than a soul / St. John of the Cross.
Unencumbered / Marguerite Porete.
Other suns /. St Gregory Palamas.
No self to forgive / Bernadette Roberts.
To be quit of God / Meister Eckhart.
Ascent to Tabor / Hierotheos Vlachos.
Be thyself the book / Angelus Silesius.
FY2004 /
Table of Contents: Introduction --
Severity: Breaking the chains / Jakob Boehme.
The ladder of graces / Theophanis the Monk.
Transposition. Unseen warfare.
Death / St. Thomas à Kempis.
Pure fire / Hugh of St Victor.
What more must I do? / The Desert Father.
The ceremony of substitution / Charles Williams.
My desire has been crucified / St. Ignatios of Antioch --
II. Simplicity: Drawn by the flames / St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
Descending with the breath / Nikiphoros the Athonite.
So many names / Jean-Pierre de Caussade.
What dreams may come / St. Diadochos of Photiki.
I sleep but my heart waketh / St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
Nakedness and sacrifice / Jean Borella.
The Tao / Hieromonk Damascene.
Go not but stay / St. Francis of Sales --
III. Purity: The center of the soul / William Law.
True prayer / Evagrios the Solitary.
The Tabernacle of the Covenant / Richard of St. Victor.
Rank upon rank / St. Clement of Alexandria.
Ignorance is bliss / Nicholas of Cusa.
Opening the tomb / St. Maximos the Confessor.
The virginal paradise / St. Louis Marie de Montfort.
Clothed in Christ / St. Symeon the New Theologian. --
VIII. Unicity: A reply to active persons / The Cloud of Unknowing.
Closing to a bud again / Lilian Staveley.
The joyful instant / St. Augustine.
One and the same mind / Origen.
Awareness and return / Swami Abhishiktananda.
Waylessness / John of Ruysbroeck.
Hidden beauty / St. Dionysios the Areopagite.
Essence Is simple / St. Nikolai Velimirovich --
IX. Identity: The flight of the eagle / John Scotus Eriugena.
More God than a soul / St. John of the Cross.
Unencumbered / Marguerite Porete.
Other suns /. St Gregory Palamas.
No self to forgive / Bernadette Roberts.
To be quit of God / Meister Eckhart.
Ascent to Tabor / Hierotheos Vlachos.
Be thyself the book / Angelus Silesius.
FY2004 /
Physical description
xxi, 279 p.; 23 cm
Description
Anthology of nearly two thousand years of Christian mystical writings from Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant perspectives.
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Original language
Multiple languages