The moral mystic / / James R. Horne
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| Autore: |
Horne James R. <1931->
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| Titolo: |
The moral mystic / / James R. Horne
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1983 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 200 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mysticism |
| Religious ethics | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Bibliography: p. [125]-129. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter I. Mysticism and the Amoral Life; Chapter II. Some Important Distinctions; Chapter III. Mysticism and the Moral Life; Chapter IV. Religion and Morality; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Mysticism is condemned as often as it is praised. Much of the condemnation comes from mysticism's apparent disregard of morality and ethics. For mystics, the experience of ""union"" transcends all moral concern. In this careful examination of the works of such practitioners or examiners of mysticism as Paul Tillich, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill, and Martin Buber, the author posits a spectrum of uneasy relationships between mysticism and morality. Horne explores the polarities of apophatic (imageless) and imaginative mysticism, the contemplative and the active life, and morality and amor |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Moral Mystic |
| ISBN: | 0-88920-769-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154757603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SR supplements ; ; 14.