The Rhineland Mystics

The work of the great Rhineland mystics of the fourteenth century speaks to the modern reader with astonishing directness and clarity. In their emphasis on the personal, inward experience of God and their questioning of the formal, ritualistic side of religion, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec appear almost as contemporaries. This impression is heightened by vivid new translations by Oliver Davies, who also sets the Rhineland mystics in their historical and cultural context and examines why we seem to have a special sensitivity to their voice in spite of a gap of over six hundred years.

Author: Oliver Davies
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 06/02/2016
Pages: 138
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781498299947

About the Author
Oliver Davies was a lector at the University of Cologne (1982-84). His work as a translator includes Beguine Spirituality: An Anthology, edited by Fiona Bowie (1989).