Hello Everyone!
Today, we’re going to tackle this week’s theme, compassion, from the lens of the mystical Christians, often referred to as the mystics in general Judeo-Christian theology and history.
This will be a tougher philosophy to isolate and pin down than some of the others, but if we are open to a bit of uncertainty in approaching it, there is quite a bit to be gleaned.
Actually, the hallmark of this philosophy is that very word, uncertainty.
Throughout the history of Christianity, there has always been a parallel and oftentimes intersecting through-line of alternative practice. While many of the practitioners of this way of thinking might not even call themselves mystics, it is helpful when studying Christian theology retrospectively to separate some of these thinkers from the larger dogmatic and institutionalized theology that ebbed and flowed with empires, history, and culture.
Some great examples of Christian mystics over the years would be Meister Eckert, St. Bonaventure,…
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