Mysticism, Death and Dying

By Christopher Nugent

Book Overview

This book charts the borderline between the nocturnal side of mysticism and the luminous side of death and it illuminates their paradoxical affinities. Within a culture of both denial and despair, it affirms the reality but not the finality of death. If what the generations have called the mystery of death is "the last enemy," a still more mysterious mysticism would anticipate, illuminate and disarm it, issuing in what "eyes have not seen, ears have not heard." This work is contemporary in that it represents a creative and original appropriation of tradition, is spiritually more mystical than devotional-and is ecumenically conversant with and sensitive to the great religious traditions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791422054
• ISBN13: 9780791422052
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher