The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 2 (of 2)
by von Friedrich Hügel
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Contents
- 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
- 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
- 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 Nat
- 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
- 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 Correspon
- I. Of Subject-Matters
- Holy Scripture—Old Testament
- New Testament