Louth, Andrew

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. ‎

97801982666860198266685


Mysticism - History.Fathers of the Church.

BV5075 / .L68 1981