The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 2 (of 2) — John Shaqi
The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 2 (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 2 (of 2)
Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von
Catherine, of Genoa, Saint, 1447-1510
VII. Perennial Freshness of the Great Mystics’ Main Spiritual
Test, in Contradistinction to their Secondary, Psychological
Contention. Two Special Difficulties 47-61
CHAPTER X.--THE MAIN LITERARY SOURCES OF CATHERINE’S
CONCEPTIONS 62-110
Introductory 62, 63
I. The Pauline Writings: the Two Sources of their
Pre-Conversion Assumptions; Catherine’s Preponderant
Attitude towards each Position 63-79
II. The Joannine Writings 79-90
III. The Areopagite Writings 90-101
IV. Jacopone da Todi’s “Lode” 102-110
V. Points common to all Five Minds; and Catherine’s Main
Difference from her Four Predecessors 110
CHAPTER XI.--CATHERINE’S LESS ULTIMATE THIS-WORLD DOCTRINES 111-181
Introductory 111, 112
I. Interpretative Religion 112-121
II. Dualistic Attitude towards the Body 121-129
III. Quietude and Passivity. Points in this Tendency to be
considered here 129-152
IV. Pure Love, or Disinterested Religion: its Distinction
from Quietism 152-181
CHAPTER XII.--THE AFTER-LIFE PROBLEMS AND DOCTRINES 182-258
I. The Chief Present-day Problems, Perplexities, and
Requirements with Regard to the After-Life in General 182-199
II. Catherine’s General After-Life Conceptions 199-218
III. Catherine and Eternal Punishment 218-230
IV. Catherine and Purgatory 230-246
V. Catherine and Heaven--Three Perplexities to be considered 246-258
CHAPTER XIII.--THE FIRST THREE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS 259-308
I. The Relations between Morality and Mysticism, Philosophy
and Religion 259-275
II. Mysticism and the Limits of Human Knowledge and Experience 275-290
III. Mysticism and the Question of Evil 290-308
CHAPTER XIV.--THE TWO FINAL PROBLEMS: MYSTICISM AND PANTHEISM,
THE IMMANENCE OF GOD, AND SPIRITUAL PERSONALITY, HUMAN AND
DIVINE 309-340
Introductory 309, 310
I. Relations between the General and the Particular, God and
Individual Things, according to Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists,
and the Medieval Strict Realists 310-319
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