Author : Oliver Davies
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498299938
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Book Synopsis The Rhineland Mystics by : Oliver Davies
Download or read book The Rhineland Mystics written by Oliver Davies and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the great Rhineland mystics of the fourteenth century speaks to the modern reader with astonishing directness and clarity. In their emphasis on the personal, inward experience of God and their questioning of the formal, ritualistic side of religion, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec appear almost as contemporaries. This impression is heightened by vivid new translations by Oliver Davies, who also sets the Rhineland mystics in their historical and cultural context and examines why we seem to have a special sensitivity to their voice in spite of a gap of over six hundred years.