The Story of the Christian Mystics from Saint Paul to Thomas Merton
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Table of Contents for Love Burning in the Soul

Preface ix
Introduction1

1. New Testament Times  13
    Jesus   15
    Paul     19
    John     21

2. The Early Church    24
    Clement of Alexandria   26
    Origen    29
    Plotinus  32

3. The Christian Empire  36
    Gregory of Nyssa    38
    Evagrius Ponticus  40
    Augustine of Hippo  42

4. The Dark Ages  47
    Dionysius the Areopagite  49
    Pope Gregory the Great  53
    John Scotus Erigena   56

5. The Age of the Crusades  59
    Bernard of Clairvaux 61
    Richard of Saint-Victor  65
    Hildegard of Bingen  67

6. Franciscans  71
    Francis of Assisi   73
    Bonaventure   76
    Angela of Foligno  79

7. The Beguines  82
    Hadewijch of Brabant   86
    Mechthild of Magdeburg  88
    Marguerite Porete   91

8. The Rhineland Mystics   94
    Meister Eckhart   96
    Johannes Tauler  100
    Henry Suso  101
    Jan van Ruysbroeck 103

9. Orthodox Mysticism and Hesychasm 107
    Symeon the New Theologian  111
    Gregory Palamas

10. The English Flowering  119
      Richard Rolle   121
      The Cloud of Unknowing  123
      Walter Hilton  126
      Julian of Norwich  128

11. The Late Middle Ages  131
      Catherine of Siena  133
      Catherine of Genoa  136

12. Protestant Mysticism  140
      Jacob Boehme  143
      George Fox  147

13. The Golden Age of Spain  152
      Teresa of Avila  154
      John of the Cross 158

14. French Mystics and Quietism  163
      Francis of Sales 165
      Brother Lawrence 168
      Miguel de Molinos 170
      Madame Guyon 172
      Francois Fenelon  173

15. The Age of the Enlightenment 176
      Jean-Pierre de Caussade  178
      William Law  181
      John Wesley   184

16. Romantics and Nature Mysticism 188
      William Blake  190
      William Wordsworth  195

17. The Modern Age 201
      Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 205
      Thomas Merton 208

Epilogue  215
Notes  221
Selected Bibliography
235

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