Notes on Contributors
Preface
Introduction
1. “A Guide to Christian Mysticism,” by Julia A. Lamm
Part I: Themes in Christian Mysticism
2. “The Song of Songs,” by Ann W. Astell and Catherine Cavadini
3. “Gender,” by Barbara Newman
4. “Platonism,” by Willemien Otten
5. “Aesthetics,” by Don E. Saliers
6. “Heresy,” by J. Patrick Hornbeck II
Part II:  Early Christian Mysticism
7. “Mysticism in the New Testament,” by Alan C. Mitchell
8. “The Judaean–Jewish Contexts of Early Christian Mysticism,” by Ori Z Soltes
9. “Mysticism in Pre–Nicene Christianity?” by Bogdan G. Bucur
10. “Origen and his Followers,” by Augustine Casiday
11. “Negative Theology from Gregory of Nyssa to Dionysius the Areopagite,” by Charles M. Stang
12. “Syriac Mysticism,” Brian E. Colless
13. “Mysticism and Contemplation in Augustine’s Confessions,” by John Peter Kenney
14. “Augustine’s Ecclesial Mysticism,” by J. Patout Burns
15. “Benedictine Monasticism and Mysticism,” by Columba Stewart, OSB

Part III: Medieval Mystics and Mystical Traditions
16. “Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercian Mystical Tradition,” by Brian Patrick McGuire
17. “The Victorines,” by Boyd Taylor Coolman
18. “The Mystery of Divine/Human Communion in the Byzantine Tradition,” by George E. Demacopoulos
19. “Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure,” by Kevin L. Hughes
20. “The Nuns of Helfta,” by Anna Harrison
21. “Mysticism In The Spiritual Franciscan Tradition,” Michael F. Cusato, OFM
22. “The Low Countries and the Beguines,” by Helen Rolfson, OSF
23. “Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Henry Suso,” by Charlotte C. Radler
24. “The Late Fourteenth–Century English Mystics,” by Christiania Whitehead
25. “Late Medieval Italian Mystics,” by Armando Maggi
26. “Nicholas of Cusa and the Ends of Medieval Mysticism,” by Peter J. Casarella
Part IV: Mysticism and Modernity
27. “The Protestant Reformers on Mysticism,” by Dennis E. Tamburello, OFM
28. “Spanish Mysticism and Religious Renewal: Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and John of the Cross,” by Edward Howells
29. “Seventeenth–Century French Mysticism,” Wendy M. Wright
30. “The Making of ‘Mysticism’ in The Anglo–American World: From Henry Coventry to William James,” by Leigh Eric Schmidt
31. “ ‘We kiss our dearest Redeemer through inward prayer’: Mystical Traditions in Pietism,” by Ruth Albrecht
32. “Nineteenth–Twentieth Century Russian Mysticism,” by Paul L. Gavrilyuk
33. “Modern Catholic Theology and Mystical Tradition,” by Stephen M. Fields, SJ
34. “Mystics Of The Twentieth Century,” by Mary Frohlich, RSCJ
Part V: Critical Perspectives on Mysticism
35. “A Critical Theological Perspective,” by Philip Sheldrake
36. “What the Saints Know: Quasi–Epistemological Reflections,” by James Wetzel
37. “Mysticism and the Vernacular,” by Denis Renevey
38. “The Social Scientific Study of Christian Mysticism,” by Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and Zhuo Chen
39. “Neuroscience,” by Douglas E. Anderson
40. “Christian Mysticism in Interreligious Perspective,” by Leo D. Lefebure