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Mystics : presence and aporia / edited by Michael Kessler and Christian Sheppard.

Contributor(s): Kessler, Michael, 1944- | Sheppard, Christian
Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and postmodernism: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003Description: xvi, 254 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226432106 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226432092 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Mysticism -- History -- CongressesDDC classification: 248.2/2 LOC classification: BV5075 | .M88 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: What do we mean by "mystic"? / Jean-Luc Marion -- Suddenly, Christ: the place of negative theology in the mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagites / Alexander Golitzin -- Thomas Aquinas and onto-theo-logy / Jean-Luc Marion -- Between mysticisms: the trial of Joan of Arc / Françoise Meltzer -- Unitrinum seu triunum: Nicholas of Cusa's trinitarian mysticism / Bernard McGinn -- Unmasking the angel of light: the problem of deception in Martin Luther and Teresa of Avila / Susan Schreiner -- From ritual to poetry: Herbert's mystical Eucharist / Regina M. Schwartz -- Mysticism and catastrophe in Georges Bataille's Atheological summa / Amy Hollywood -- The experience of nonexperience / Kevin Hart -- Locating the mystical subject / Thomas A. Carlson -- Afterword: A reflection on mystics: presence and aporia / David Tracy.

"Mystics" conference held at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, Spring 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: What do we mean by "mystic"? / Jean-Luc Marion -- Suddenly, Christ: the place of negative theology in the mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagites / Alexander Golitzin -- Thomas Aquinas and onto-theo-logy / Jean-Luc Marion -- Between mysticisms: the trial of Joan of Arc / Françoise Meltzer -- Unitrinum seu triunum: Nicholas of Cusa's trinitarian mysticism / Bernard McGinn -- Unmasking the angel of light: the problem of deception in Martin Luther and Teresa of Avila / Susan Schreiner -- From ritual to poetry: Herbert's mystical Eucharist / Regina M. Schwartz -- Mysticism and catastrophe in Georges Bataille's Atheological summa / Amy Hollywood -- The experience of nonexperience / Kevin Hart -- Locating the mystical subject / Thomas A. Carlson -- Afterword: A reflection on mystics: presence and aporia / David Tracy.

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