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Theo-Monistic Mysticism

A Hindu-Christian Comparison

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Michael Stoeber

    1. Department of Religion and Religious Education, The Catholic University of America, Washington, USA

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Part of the book series: Library of Philosophy and Religion (LPR)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Stoeber
    Pages 1-5

  3. Constructivist Epistemologies of Mysticism: a Critique and a Revision

    • Michael Stoeber
    Pages 7-19

  4. Introvertive Mystical Experiences: Monistic, Theistic, and the Theo-Monistic

    • Michael Stoeber
    Pages 21-38

  5. Monistic and Theistic Hierarchies of Mysticism

    • Michael Stoeber
    Pages 39-60

  6. The Dialectic of the Divine

    • Michael Stoeber
    Pages 61-85

  7. The Theo-Monistic Hierarchy

    • Michael Stoeber
    Pages 87-112

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 113-135
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In response to some of the current explanations of mystic phenomena, this book proposes an interpretive framework for understanding mysticism. It clarifies various kinds of mystical experiences, suggesting they are not wholly determined by subjective categories of interpretation, and illustrates how they can be synthesised in a theistic, mystic teleology. In reference to Ramanuja, Aurobinodo, Sankara, Eckhart, Ruusbroec, and Boehme, monistic experiences are understood to culminate in higher theistic realizations, to which other kinds of mysticism can also be related.

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  • Department of Religion and Religious Education, The Catholic University of America, Washington, USA

    Michael Stoeber

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