Love, Knowledge and Mystical Union in Western Christianity

Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries

The author studies this inexhaustible subject through Saint Augustine, Gregory the Great, Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St. Thierry, Bonaventure, Eckhart, Thomas Gallus, The Cloud of Unknowing, Suso Ruusbroec, and finaly Saint John of the Cross. The notion of unio mystica has had a key role in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Author:Bernard McGinn
Published: S.n., s.l., 1987
Pages:7-24
Periodical:Church History
Number:56
Format:Article
Topic:- Influence and Survival > The Middle Ages (430-1453) > General studies of the survival of Augustine in the Greek world and in western thought and schools > [Pensée médiévale (par sujet)] > [Mystique]
Status:Needs Review