The Origins of Christian Mystical Tradition : from Plato to Denys/
Andrew Louth
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1981
- 215 p. ; 21 cm.
Plato -- Philo -- Plotinus -- Origen -- Nicene orthodoxy: Athanasius ; Gregory of Nyssa -- The monastic contribution: Evagrius of Pontus ; the Macarian Homilies ; Diadochus of Photicē -- Augustine -- Denys the Areopagite -- Patristic mysticism and St. John of the Cross ; Divine darkness and the dark night -- The mystical life and the mystical body: Platonism and mysticism ; the communion of saints.