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Between Three Worlds
Spiritual Travelers in the Western Literary Tradition
- 172 pages
- English
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About this book
This book explores the motif of the spiritual journey and its evolution in Western literature. A spiritual journey can be broadly defined as a search for the divine. Such a search can occur either internally as a psychological process or in some cases may involve an actual geographic journey. Spiritual journeys can be conducted by individuals or groups. In exploring this topic, various kinds of texts will be reviewed, including autobiographies, novels, and short stories, as well as myths, folktales, and mystical writings. The book classifies spiritual journey narratives into four categories: theological journeys, mystical journeys, mythopoetic journeys and allegorical journeys. Representative texts have been selected in the history of Western religious literature that illustrate the basic features of each of these four categories.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Scriptural Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The Spiritual Journeys of Prophets, Sages and Philosophers
- Chapter 3: Augustine and His Confessions
- Chapter 4: The Many Misfortunes of Peter Abelard
- Chapter 5: Margery Kempe, the Mystical Pilgrim
- Chapter 6: The Occult World of Emanuel Swedenborg
- Chapter 7: The Mythopoetic Journey: Medieval and Classical Texts
- Chapter 8: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Medieval Christianity
- Chapter 9: Allegorical Journeys in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
- Chapter 10: Descending into the World of Spiritual Pessimism: Hawthorne and Kafka
- Chapter 11: The Spiritual Journey Re-envisioned: Hermann Hesse and C.S. Lewis
- Chapter 12: Conclusion
- Bibliography