WESTERN MYSTICISM
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Subtitle: Augustine, Gregory, and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative Life
Author: Dom Cuthbert Butler. 304 pg. PB.
This collection presents the writings of three of Western Christianity's most revered teachers of mystical theology. In addition to personal accounts by Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory, and Saint Bernard of their religious experiences, Western Mysticism discusses speculative contemplation, defines mysticism and its characteristics, and contrasts contemplative and active lives. Unabridged republication of Western Mysticism: The Teaching of Augustine, Gregory, and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative Life, E. P. Dutton and Co., London, 1926.