The Mystical Element Of Religion As Studied In Saint Catherine Of Genoa And Her Friends, Volume 2
Subtitle: Critical Studies
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London, England; New York, USA
Language: eng
Description: Volume 2 of 2
Table of contents: title: PART III. — CRITICAL; title: CHAPTER IX. — PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL; title: Questions 3-61; title: Introductory 3-9; title: I. Catherine's Third Period, 1497-1510  9-13; title: II. Conclusions concerning Catherine's Psycho-physical Condition during this Last Period  14-21; title: III. Catherine's Psycho-physical Condition, its Likeness and Unlikeness to Hysteria 22-27; title: IV. First Period of Catherine's Life, 1447- 1477, in its Three Stages 28-32; title: V. The Second, Great Middle Period of Catherine's Life, 1477-1499 32-40; title: VI. Three Rules which seem to govern the Relations between Psycho-physical Peculiarities and Sanctity in general 40-47; title: VII. Perennial Freshness of the Great Mystics' Main Spiritual Test, in Contradistinction to their Secondary, Psychological Contention. Two Special Difficulties 47-61; title: CHAPTER X. — THE MAIN LITERARY SOURCES OF CATHERINE'S CONCEPTIONS 62-110; title: Introductory 62, 63; title: I. The Pauline Writings : the Two Sources of their Pre-Conversion Assumptions ; Catherine's Preponderant Attitude towards each Position 63-79; title: II. The Joannine Writings 79-90; title: III. The Areopagite Writings 90-101; title: IV. Jacopone da Todi's "Lode" 102-110; title: V. Points common to all Five Minds; and Catherine's Main Difference from her Four Predecessors   110; title: CHAPTER XI. - CATHERINE'S LESS ULTIMATE THIS-WORLD DOCTRINES 111- 181; title: Introductory 111, 112; title: I. Interpretative Religion 112-121; title: II. Dualistic Attitude towards the Body 121-129; title: III. Quietude and Passivity. Points in this Tendency to be considered here 129-152; title: IV. Pure Love, or Disinterested Religion: its Distinction from Quietism 152-181; title: CHAPTER XII. — THE AFTER-LIFE PROBLEMS AND DOCTRINES 182-258; title: I. The Chief Present-day Problems, Perplexities, and Requirements with Regard to the After-Life in General 182-199; title: II. Catherine's General After-Life Conceptions   199-218; title: III. Catherine and Eternal Punishment 218-230; title: IV. Catherine and Purgatory 230-246; title: V. Catherine and Heaven— Three Perplexities to be considered 246-258; title: CHAPTER XIII. — THE FIRST THREE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS 259-308; title: I. The Relations between Morality and Mysticism, Philosophy and Religion 259-275; title: II. Mysticism and the Limits of Human Knowledge and Experience 275-290; title: III. Mysticism and the Question of Evil 290-308; title: CHAPTER XIV. — THE TWO FINAL PROBLEMS : MYSTICISM AND PANTHEISM. THE IMMANENCE OF GOD, AND SPIRITUAL PERSONALITY, HUMAN AND DIVINE 309-340; title: Introductory 309, 310; title: 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; title: II. Relations between God and the Human Soul   319-325; title: III. Mysticism and Pantheism : their Differences and Points of Likeness 325—335; title: IV. The Divine Immanence ; Spiritual Personality 336-340; title: CHAPTER XV. — SUMMING-UP OF THE WHOLE BOOK. BACK THROUGH ASCETICISM, SOCIAL RELIGION, AND THE SCIENTIFIC HABIT OF MIND, TO THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION 341-396; title: I. Asceticism and Mysticism 341-351; title: II. Social Religion and Mysticism 351-366; title: III. The Scientific Habit and Mysticism  367-386; title: IV. Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of the Whole Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the Almost Inevitable Mutual Hostility, of the Three Great Forces of the Soul and of the Three Corresponding Elements of Religion 387-396; title: INDEX 397