Fourteen classic Catholic mystics and contemplatives, drawn from 22 books and compiled under 215 categories — chronologically by date. From St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) through St. John of the Cross (1542–1591), six centuries of contemplative theology in a single reference volume.
Inside: St. Bonaventure, Bl. John of Ruysbroeck, Bl. Henry Suso, Johannes Tauler, Walter Hilton, Juliana of Norwich, St. Catherine of Siena, The Cloud of Unknowing, Theologia Germanica, Thomas à Kempis (The Imitation of Christ), St. Catherine of Genoa, St. Teresa of Avila, and St. John of the Cross — with an introduction by the Anglo-Catholic mystic Evelyn Underhill. The collection includes five women and five Doctors of the Church; the orders represented are Dominican, Augustinian, Carmelite, Franciscan, and Cistercian.
For the reader who loves the mystics but doesn’t have time to barrel through twenty-two volumes to find what St. Teresa says about prayer — open to the topic, find the passage, return to your day.
Inside this book
- 215 topical categories, alphabetically indexed for quick reference
- Fourteen mystics across the 12th–16th centuries, arranged chronologically
- Five Doctors of the Church: Bernard, Bonaventure, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross
- Introduction by Evelyn Underhill, the Anglo-Catholic authority on Christian mysticism
- Sources include *The Cloud of Unknowing*, *Theologia Germanica*, and *The Imitation of Christ*
