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Mystical theology : the integrity of spirituality and theology

Offers an understanding of the inner integrity of mystical consciousness and theological expression. This book tests the possibility of renewed conversation between spirituality and theology by drawing on spiritual traditions to re-think problems in Trinitarian thought, christology, and the understanding of the self.
Print Book, English, 1998
Blackwell, Malden, Mass., 1998
xi, 246 pages ; 24 cm
9781557869067, 9781557869074, 1557869065, 1557869073
37890511
Spirituality and theology: the questions at issue
Mystery and doctrine: the historical integrity of spirituality and theology
Recovering the mystical element of theology: the twentieth-century examples of Rahner and von Balthasar
Theological hermeneutics and spiritual texts
Trinitarian self-abandon and the problem of divine suffering
The hiddenness of God and the self-understanding of Jesus
Love for the other and discovery of the self