Passionate Spirituality
Subtitle: Hildegard Of Bingen And Hadewijch Of Brabant
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: March 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780809143047
Subjects: Christian spirituality; Saint,; Mysticism; History; Spirituality - General; Women mystics; Christianity; Religion - Classic Works; Body, Mind & Spirit; Religion - Catholicism; Middle Ages, 600-1500; New Age; To 1500; Love; History of doctrines; Christian Life - Inspirational - Catholic; Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality; Religious aspects; 1098-1179; Belgium; Germany; Hildegard,
First sentence: Once we are convinced of the wisdom of retrieving the tradition, the next question is how to do it.
Description: "Passionate Spirituality explores the roots and meanings of passion in Western culture, and then examines how passion is expressed in the works of two medieval women mystics - Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant - and in the lives of contemporary Christians seeking to deepen their own spiritual journeys. Too often, the term "passion' is associated only with steamy films, sexual, sin, and emotional excess - cutting off the breadth of its meaning and expression for positive good. But the great mystics succeed precisely because they hold together both the affective and the intellectual aspects of the spiritual life in creative and convincing ways. Their accounts of their mystical experience are important resources for information and understanding about how to talk about God more formally, and for what it means to be passionately in love with God and the world."--BOOK JACKET.