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DURHAM UNIVERSITY (^) (^) SOUL RECREATION: SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE AND RAVISHMENT IN THE CONTEMPLATIVE- MYSTICAL PIETY OF ISAAC AMBRO ...

iii ABSTRACT^ Tom Schwanda Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambro ...

iv CONTENTS DECLARATION viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix (^) ABBREVIATIONS xi INTRODUCTION xii PORTRAIT OF ISAAC AMBROSE xv Chapter INT ...

v - Continuities and Discontinuities in the Study of Spiritual Marriage CONTEMPLATIVE BIOGRAPHY Nature and Structure of t ...

vi 5. THE RHETORIC OF RAVISHMENT: THE LANGUAGE OF DELIGHT AND ENJOYMENT 217 Definition and Use of Ravishment in the Writing of I ...

vii Language of Delight and Enjoyment^296 Retrieval of Isaac Ambrose for the Contemporary Church 299 Conclusion 313 (^) CONCLUSI ...

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ix ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The creation of a thesis requires a journey that involves many people. While it is impossible to recognize e ...

x move into a retirement home required him to radically reduce the size of his library. Many of the sources used in this researc ...

xi ABBREVIATIONS CD Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics DNB Dictionary of National Biography ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biograp ...

xii INTRODUCTION The questions that prompted this research originally arose out of Christian ministry. At that time the author w ...

xiii the pastoral question of how the forgotten or neglected treasures of Puritan piety can speak to the contemporary Church, an ...

xiv Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed. has established the style and ...

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Puritan Mysticism Isaac Ambrose was “[o]f a retiring disposition, his mind of the contemplative order, ...

argues persuasively “that mystics and mystically-inclined individuals naturally grew out of the soil of moderate Puritanism: the ...

complex matter of sorting out the reasons for this decline in continuity will be examined in chapter 6 when the important questi ...

academic detractors as well as defenders of this commonly perceived oxymoron will be considered. McGinn’s insights from the earl ...