The Mystical Element Of Religion as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her Friends, Volume II

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Author

Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1852-1925

Title

The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 2 (of 2)

Credits

Produced by Julie Barkley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements

Subject

Catherine, of Genoa, Saint, 1447-1510

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50206

Release Date

October 14, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME — THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION
3. 3.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.
4. 4.INDEX — I. OF SUBJECT-MATTERS — II. OF LITERARY REFERENCES — Holy Scripture—Old Testament — New Testament
5. 5.FOOTNOTES

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