Some Exponents of Mystical Religion (Hardcover)

1930. The chapters of this book were given as a course of lectures on the Modern Era Lectureship Foundation at the University of Southern California in April 1929. The opening chapter is a fresh attempt to reinterpret the nature and significance of mystical experience. The other chapters are in the main historical illustrations through great personalities of the meaning and value of the mystical approach to God. Contents: Mystical experience; Plotinus the father of western mysticism; Meister Eckhart; Influence of mystics on Martin Luther; Mysticism in Robert Browning and Walt Whitman; Mystical life and thought in America.