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Christian Mysticism, Part 3
It’s almost always a bad idea to have really long quotations in a blog post, but I have to make an exception in the following case.
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The "Origen" of Christian Mysticism?
Origen of Alexandria’s (c.
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The essence of Christianity
Most people miss the fundamental point of Christianity
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The true meaning of "selflessness"
When you have completely stripped yourself of your own self, and all things and every kind of attachment, and have transferred, made over, and abandoned…
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Christian mysticism, Part 2
Picking up from the prior post…
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Christian mysticism Part 1
A Christianity which is not basically mystical must become either a political ideology or a mindless fundamentalism. Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit
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Meister Eckhart's conception of God
Meister Eckhart, a 14th-century German mystic and theologian, presents a unique and often provocative understanding of God that diverges significantly…
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The essence of Christianity is your own inner movement toward God
Nothing is more certain than your own experience
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Silence
In order to experience God, you have to strip away the linguistic labels that you habitually use.
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Do you suffer from divine apprehension?
The mystical knowledge of God is a knowledge of God in the act of his presence and union with us, but is not immediate vision and apprehension of the…
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Tears in rain, language, and ice cream
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
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Did Paul "steal" Christianity from Jesus' brother?
Robert Eisenman, an American biblical scholar, posits a highly controversial theory regarding the relationship between Saint Paul and James, the brother…
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