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<p>a Distinctive Feature Of Mystical Experience Is That It Is Imageless. Mystics Of Various Traditions Witness Indeed To Their Going Beyond All Intermediaries So As To Enjoy Immediate Union. Understandably, The Idea Of Imageless Immediacy Is Attractive, And It Is Especially In Vogue With Those Who Hope To Discover That Different (religious) Spiritualities Converge If Only The Particularity Of, Say, The Christian Way Would Be Left Behind. However, A Crucial Question Arises Here. If Mystical Union Consists In Simply Transcending What Is Part And Parcel Of The Human Condition, Where Is Its Relevance? Is The Mystic As Such In A Position To Be His Or Her Human Self - Thinking And Loving, Enjoying And Suffering? Can He Or She Be Active In The World Of Humankind? Obviously, It Is Especially In The Christian Tradition That This Matter Comes To The Fore As A Radical Difficulty. For Here There Is The Divine Image And Mediator, So Much So That The Humanity Of Jesus Ought To Be Integral To A Person's Union With God. Perhaps The Christian Mystic Is Such An Extraordinary Figure That The Humanity And All Other Images And Intermediaries Are, For Him Or Her, At Best A Stepping-stone That Is Bound T
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- Author
- Paul Mommaers
- Publisher
- Peeters Publishers
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789042912328
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Religion
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14