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Luke Timothy Johnson · 2008
A comprehensive 36-lecture course examining the mystical traditions within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, exploring how mystics in these three Western religions pursue direct experience of the divine through prayer and contemplation, with emphasis on primary texts and historical contexts.
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What this book knows
Mystical union with the divine is not private escape but the living core of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam's shared communal traditions.
obedience-and-authority
Mysticism has flourished most within well-developed and firm communities of shared practice—halachic observance, monastic communities, Sufi fellowships.
MTJC-RC-005The positive response to God is obedience, faith, or submission; the negative is idolatry, disobedience, apostasy, sin, or shirking.
MTJC-RC-012faith-and-doubt
Rumi's is a religion of love; the deepest form involves escape from the selfish impulses of the ego and reunion with the beloved.
MTJ-RC-107Mystics may serve as prophetic witnesses of a reality most denied by the activities of ordinary life.
MTJ-RC-117transformation
Al-Ghazzali's work affirms consonance of exoteric and esoteric, mapping the ways to perdition and the ways to salvation.
MTJ-RC-104How does inner experience of contemplation or ecstasy find exoteric expression in the symbolism of gesture or language?
MTJC-RC-0096 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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