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Modernists and Mystics
C.J.T. Talar
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Description for Modernists and Mystics
Hardcover. Tells the story of the Modernist turn to the mystical. This book focuses on four diverse modernist-era figures and explores their understanding of mysticism and their relationship to mystics. It also locates these theologians in the larger debates within Catholicism and within the secular academy. Editor(s): Talar, C.J.T. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Though the figures associated with the Modernist crisis in Roman Catholicism are normally viewed as looking forward in terms of critical history and philosophy, they also looked back in history to the church's mystical tradition. ""Modernists and Mystics"" is the first book to tell the story of the Modernist turn to the mystical. It focuses on four diverse modernist-era figures - Friedrich von Hugel, Maurice Blondel, Henri Bremond, and Alfred Loisy - and explores their understanding of mysticism and their relationship to mystics. In the six original essays included in this volume, the authors discuss how von Hugel, Blondel, Bremond, ... Read more
Though the figures associated with the Modernist crisis in Roman Catholicism are normally viewed as looking forward in terms of critical history and philosophy, they also looked back in history to the church's mystical tradition. ""Modernists and Mystics"" is the first book to tell the story of the Modernist turn to the mystical. It focuses on four diverse modernist-era figures - Friedrich von Hugel, Maurice Blondel, Henri Bremond, and Alfred Loisy - and explores their understanding of mysticism and their relationship to mystics. In the six original essays included in this volume, the authors discuss how von Hugel, Blondel, Bremond, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813217093
SKU
V9780813217093
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About C.J.T. Talar
C. J. T. TALAR is professor of systematic theology at the University of Saint Thomas. He was co-convener of the Roman Catholic Modernism Seminar (1995-1999) and has worked on John Henry Newman and modern French Catholicism. He is coauthor, with Harvey Hill and Louise-Pierre Sardella, of By Those Who Knew Them: French Modernists Left, Right, and Center, and his chapter ... Read more
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