This book examines the relationship between transcendence and immanence within Christian mystical and apophatic writings. Original essays from a range of leading, established, and emerging scholars in the field focus on the roles of language, signs, and images, and consider how mystical theology might contribute to contemporary reflection on the Word incarnate. This collection of essays re-examines works from such canonical figures as Eckhart, Augustine, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas of Cusa, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich, along with the philosophical thought of Iris Murdoch, Jacques Lacan, and Martin Heidegger, and the contemporary phenomena of the Emerging Church. Presenting new readings of key ideas in mystical theology, and renewed engagement with the visionary and the everyday, the therapeutic and the transformative, these essays question how we might think about what may lie between transcendence and immanence.

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Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction Transforming Presence: Incarnation between Transcendence and Immanence
1 Plotinus: Monist, Theist or Atheist?
2 Seeing One’s Own Face in the Face of God: The Doctrine of the Divine Ideas in the Mystical Theologies of Dionysius the Areopagite and Nicholas of Cusa
3 The Visibility of the Invisible: From Nicholas of Cusa to Late Modernity and Beyond
4 Enhypostasia Mystica: Contributions from Mystical Christology for a Tired Debate in Historical and Systematic Theology
5 How to Read a Mystical Text: Meister Eckhart Sermons 5a and 5b
6 Neither Money nor Delights, but Daily Bread: The Extraordinary as Spiritual Temptation
7 Between the Apophatic and Cataphatic: Heidegger’s Tautophatic Mystical Linguistics
8 Understanding Augustine’s On the Trinity as a Mystical Work
9 The Apophatic Potential of Augustine’s De doctrina christiana: Creatures as Signs of God
10 To Centre or Not to Centre: Ss Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross and the ‘Centre of the Soul’
11 Julian of Norwich’s Logophatic Discourse
12 Mystical Theology Today: Contemporary Experiments in the Making and Breaking of Images
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