Process Mysticism
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Process Mysticism

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Process Mysticism

About this book

Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Process Mysticism uses the process philosophies of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, and Henri Bergson to explore mystical religious experiences. The aim is not so much to demonstrate that such experiences are true or veridical as it is to understand, in a William Jamesian fashion, how they could be possible and not contradict the concept of God held by philosophers and theologians. Divine world-inclusiveness, ideal power and tragedy, the ontological argument, asceticism and the via negativa, divine visions and voices, and the aesthetics and ethics of mysticism are all treated in detail. The book is ecumenical in that it is meant to illuminate mystical experiences as they occur around the world in different religious traditions, but the author is especially familiar with those in the Abrahamic religions. "Mysticism" can refer to either direct experience of God or the claim that such experience is ineffable, and both senses of the term are carefully analyzed in the book.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations of Works by Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, and Henri Bergson
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 Concepts of God
  8. Chapter 2 World-Inclusiveness and Nature
  9. Chapter 3 Ideal Power and Tragedy
  10. Chapter 4 Abstract and Concrete
  11. Chapter 5 Whiteheadian Contributions
  12. Chapter 6 Asceticism and Apophaticism
  13. Chapter 7 Visions and Voices
  14. Chapter 8 Bergsonian Contributions
  15. Chapter 9 The Aesthetics of Mystical Experience
  16. Chapter 10 Consequences for Ethics
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover