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The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 1 (of 2) — John Shaqi

The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 1 (of 2)Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von

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The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 1 (of 2)

Name: The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 1 (of 2)
Author: Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von

Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von

Catherine, of Genoa, Saint, 1447-1510

Introductory                                                     3-10

    I. The First of the Three Forces: Hellenism, the Thirst
    for Richness and Harmony                                        10-25

    II. The Second of the Three Forces: Christianity, the Revelation
    of Personality and Depth                                        25-39

    III. The Third Force: Science, the Apprehension and Conception
    of Brute Fact and Iron Law                                      39-48

    IV. Summing up: Hellenism or Harmonization, Christianity
    or Spiritual Experience, and Science or Acceptance
    of a Preliminary Mechanism, all three necessary to
    Man                                                            48, 49

    CHAPTER II.--THE THREE ELEMENTS OF RELIGION                     50-82

    Introductory                                                       50

    I. The Three Elements, as they successively appear in the
    Child, the Youth, and the Adult Man                             50-53

    II. Each Element ever accompanied by some amount of the
    other two. Difficulty of the Transition from one Stage
    to the other                                                    53-55

    III. Parallels to this Triad of Religious Elements              55-58

    IV. Distribution of the Three Elements amongst Mankind
    and throughout Human History                                    58-65

    V. Causes operative in all Religion towards minimizing or
    suppressing one or other Element, or towards denying
    the need of any Multiplicity                                    65-70

    VI. The Special Motives operating in each Element towards
    the suppression of the other Elements                           70-77

    VII. Three Final Objections to such a conception of Religion,
    and their Answers                                               77-82

    PART II.--BIOGRAPHICAL

    CHAPTER III.--CATHERINE FIESCA ADORNA’S LIFE, UP
    TO HER CONVERSION; AND THE CHIEF PECULIARITIES
    PREDOMINANT THROUGHOUT HER CONVERT YEARS.                      85-127

    Introductory                                                   85, 86

    I. Proposed Study of the Mystical-Volitional Element in
    a Particular, Concrete Instance: St. Catherine of
    Genoa                                                           86-90

    II. The Materials and Aids towards such a Study                 90-93

    III. Peculiarities of the Genoese Climate and Geographical
    Position; of the Ligurian Character; and of the Times
    into which Catherine was born. Her Family, Father
    and Mother                                                      93-97

    IV. Catherine’s Life, up to the Preliminaries of her Conversion:
    Autumn 1447 to Mid-March 1474                                  97-104

    V. Her Conversion, with its immediate Preliminaries and
    Consequences, March 1474                                      104-109

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