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practiced Christianity.”^5 According to Michel de Certeau, “mysticism” as a noun first appeared in early seventeenth-century Fra ...

inaccurate understanding tends to “block access to mysticism.” This is especially true of Protestants whose distorted categories ...

The combination of distorted perceptions among Protestants and Roman Catholics alike and the inability to find a consensus defin ...

tends to focus on the intellect and has its biblical origin in St. John.^20 However, the history of mysticism is far too complex ...

form and asserts that this type of mysticism rarely existed in Christianity. The second form of “mysticism is [the] broader and ...

experience that has been frequently seen by scholars in the past as a central feature of mysticism. That treatment which fits mo ...

term “the godly.”^35 John Coffey and Paul Lim introduce their study of Puritanism by using five themes to describe and frame a c ...

duty... His whole life he accounted a warfare, wherein Christ was his Captain, his arms, prayers and tears. (^38) Central to Ger ...

Perkins, and William Ames and the “Spiritual Brethren” who included Richard Sibbes, John Preston, and John Cotton.^43 While she ...

that still allows for the unique distinctions within Puritanism is Finlayson’s suggestion that envisions Puritans living along a ...

scholarship have emerged since Geoffrey Nuttall declared over sixty years ago, “Puritan mysticism is a field still almost entire ...

study of Christian mysticism. What were the roots, challenges, unique spiritual practices, and writings of Puritan piety and how ...

Brauer offers a number of significant conclusions that must be briefly mentioned. His claim that Puritan mysticism developed fro ...

Puritanism and remained closely related to it.”^65 Brauer published a number of articles since his thesis, the most recently in ...

Jansenism, Quietism, and devotion to the sacred heart of Jesus.^71 However, there are some scholars who appear to be overly gene ...

Christianity.^77 Further, Cook maintains, “[t]he true mystic is unconcerned with doctrine. He worships in a richly symbolic atmo ...

Readers will recognize the strong similarity between Mursell’s summary and McGinn’s previous description of two forms of mystici ...

applied to Puritanism are willing to acknowledge a mystical element in them.^87 However, there were Puritan scholars prior to Mc ...

the history of Christian spirituality.^93 More specifically contemplative denotes the attitude and awareness in which a person a ...

Puritans including Sibbes and Owen.^95 This is all the more convincing since Williams began her research with the strong bias “t ...