rule of Saint Benedict and the ascetic traditions from Asia to the West By Mayeul de Dreuille Mariasusai Dhavamony (2002), Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Theological...
destitution of the three kinds of goods, natural, temporal, and spiritual, which are ordained for its comfort. It sees itself in the midst of the opposite...
they were thoughts of sorrow, love, fear, hope and comfort. In her subsequent rapture, Gemma saw her guardian angel in the company of the Blessed Virgin...
According to Isaac the Syrian and Syriac Tradition". Orthodox Theology in Dialogue. 6 (6). Mitropolia Olteniei: 85–95. ISSN 2668-5353. Retrieved 2024-02-19...
used to explain the human side of Jesus: that Jesus, to truly live as a mortal, had to have voluntarily bound use of his divine powers in some way, emptying...
then were Stoicism, Platonism, Epicureanism, and, to a lesser extent, the skeptic traditions of Pyrrhonism and Academic Skepticism. Stoicism and, particularly...
ancient tradition of Lectio Divina: the diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person...
July 1647 – 17 October 1690) was a French Catholic Visitation nun and mystic who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its modern form. Alacoque...
treasurer, and Gladys was assistant secretary. To protect against prosecution, anyone requesting a reading was required to join the association and agree...
1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor. Anthony was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon...
as "consoled", "comforted", in "ecstasy" or in "rapture"; the presence of the musical angel may or may not be mentioned. Francis of Assisi in art St...
1774 – 9 February 1824) was a Catholic Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a purported mystic, Marian visionary...
violent gang of 75 robbers. Moses was a man of huge physical stature, strength and courage, and became leader of this gang of robbers that became a social menace...
Baldwin – A Treatise of Morall Phylosophye Contaynyng the Sayinges of the Wise (1547) Thomas More – ADialogueofComfortagainstTribulation (1553) John Lydgate...
"outright fakery". In 1951 scholar Hilda Graef published a widely-reviewed monograph arguing against its veracity. Wikisource has original text related to...
speak of God or the divine kataphatically is thought by some to be by its nature a form of limiting to God or divine. This was one of the core tenets of the...
exercise of sobriety (the mental ascesis against tempting thoughts), the hesychast arrives at a continual practice of the Jesus Prayer with his mind in his...
Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. Her book chronicles her domestic tribulations, her...
Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled "Faustina", had apparitions of Jesus Christ...
for Plotinus (204/5–270 CE) was defined in his works as a reversing of the ontological process of consciousness via meditation (or contemplation) toward...
A lingua ignota (Latin for "unknown language") was described by the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who apparently used it for mystical purposes...
Gertrude of Helfta; Italian: Santa Gertrude, German: Gertrud die Große von Helfta, Latin: Sancta Gertrudis; January 6, 1256 – November 17, 1302) was a German...
tractate of the second Enneads: "Against Those That Affirm The Creator of The Kosmos and The Kosmos Itself to Be Evil" (generally known as "Against The Gnostics")...
desert as a young man during the persecution of Decius and Valerianus around AD 250. He lived in the mountains of this desert in a cave near a clear spring...
development of apophatic thought. Plato further explored Parmenides's idea of timeless truth in his dialogue Parmenides, which is a treatment of the eternal...
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