
The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Freiherr von Friedrich Hügel
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Chapters (466)
- THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION
- PART III CRITICAL
- CHAPTER IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS
- Introductory.
- I. Catherine’s Third Period, 1497 to 1510.
- II. Conclusions Concerning Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition During This Last Period.
- III. Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition, its Likeness and Unlikeness To Hysteria.
- IV. First Period of Catherine’s Life, 1447 to 1477, in its Three Stages.
- V. The Second, Great Middle Period of Catherine’s Life, 1477 to 1499.
- VI. Three Rules which seem to govern the Relations between Psycho-physical Peculiarities and Sanctity in general.
- VII. Perennial Freshness of the Great Mystics’ Main Spiritual Test, in Contradistinction To Their Secondary, Psychological Contention. Two Special Difficulties.
- CHAPTER X THE MAIN LITERARY SOURCES OF CATHERINE’S CONCEPTIONS
- INTRODUCTORY.
- I. The Pauline Writings: the Two Sources of their Pre-Conversion Assumptions; Catherine’s Preponderant Attitude towards each Position.
- II. The Joannine Writings.
- III. The Areopagite Writings.
- IV. Jacopone Da Todi’s “lode.”
- V. Points Common to all Five Minds; and Catherine’s Main Difference from her Four Predecessors.
- CHAPTER XI CATHERINE’S LESS ULTIMATE THIS-WORLD DOCTRINES
- Introductory: Catherine’s less ultimate Positions, concerning our Life here, are Four.
- I. Interpretative Religion.
- II. Dualistic Attitude towards the Body.
- III. Quietude and Passivity. Points in this tendency to be considered here.
- IV. Pure Love, or Disinterested Religion: its Distinction from Quietism.
- CHAPTER XII THE AFTER-LIFE PROBLEMS AND DOCTRINES
- I. The Chief Present-day Problems, Perplexities, and Requirements with Regard to the After-Life in General.
- II. Catherine’s General After-Life Conceptions.
- III. Catherine and Eternal Punishment.
- IV. Catherine and Purgatory.
- V. Catherine and Heaven—Three Perplexities to be considered.
- CHAPTER XIII THE FIRST THREE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MORALITY, MYSTICISM, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION. MYSTICISM AND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE. MYSTICISM AND THE NATURE OF EVIL
- I. The Relations between Morality and Mysticism Philosophy and Religion.
- II. Mysticism and the Limits of Human Knowledge and Experience.
- III. Mysticism and the Question of Evil.
- CHAPTER XIV THE TWO FINAL PROBLEMS: MYSTICISM AND PANTHEISM. THE IMMANENCE OF GOD, AND SPIRITUAL PERSONALITY, HUMAN AND DIVINE
- INTRODUCTORY. Impossibility of completely abstracting from the theoretical form in the study of the experimental matter.
- I. Relations between the General and the Particular, God and Individual Things, according to Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists, and the Medieval Strict Realists.
- II. Relations between God and the Human Soul.
- III. Mysticism and Pantheism: their Differences and Points of Likeness.
- IV. The Divine Immanence; Spiritual Personality.
- CHAPTER XV SUMMING UP OF THE WHOLE BOOK. BACK THROUGH ASCETICISM, SOCIAL RELIGION, AND THE SCIENTIFIC HABIT OF MIND, TO THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION.
- I. Asceticism and Mysticism.
- II. Social Religion and Mysticism.
- III. The Scientific Habit and Mysticism.
- IV. Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of the Whole Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the Almost Inevitable Mutual Hostility, of the Three Great Forces of the Soul and of the Three Corresponding Elements of Religion.
- INDEX
- I. OF SUBJECT-MATTERS
- II. OF LITERARY REFERENCES
- Holy Scripture—Old Testament
- New Testament
- FOOTNOTES
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