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The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness - Couverture souple

Lanzetta, Beverly

 
9780791449509: The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0791449505 ISBN 13 : 9780791449509
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

From the mystic's experience of nothingness and the desert, The Other Side of Nothingness offers a theology of humility sensitive to religious pluralism and to the pain of spiritual oppression. With a passionate concern for contemporary interreligious issues, Beverly J. Lanzetta provides insight into how mystical consciousness overturns claims of dogmatic truth and prepares the self to experience the radical openness of divinity.

The work draws on a variety of Christian mystical texts, including those of Meister Ekhart, Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Bonaventure, and the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing while also making reference to Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism and the thought of contemporary social mystics such as Heschel, Gandhi, Merton, Thurman, and Day. Lanzetta illustrates how the annihilatory mystical experience draws the seeker to a place beyond a tradition's self-understanding to new dimensions of the sacred and, in some cases, to new revelatory paradigms. It is here that she provokes our thought in her statement that the divine nature is itself pluralistic, non-absolute, and continually giving birth to new traditions. By showing how nothingness functions in mystical experience as a catalyst for the liberation of our hearts, we are brought to a vision of theology that is nonviolent and inclusive of all creation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Beverly J. Lanzetta is Professor and Spiritual Director of Interfaith Theological Seminary, Research Associate at Southwest Institute for Research on Women, and the author of Path of the Heart.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0791449505
ISBN 13 
9780791449509
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
182
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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