From Pseudo-Dionysius through Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, and the anonymous 'Cloud of Unknowing.' The Rhineland mystics (c.
The Euchites or Messalians, from Syriac msallyana and Greek euchites, one who prays: a fourth-century movement from Mesopotamia into Asia Minor and Thrace, condemned at Side (383) and Ephesus (431), holding that perfection comes by…
Founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil under Tsar Peter I in the tenth century, probably in Kutmichevitsa: a dualist movement holding that Satan made matter and God the soul, rejecting the cross, church buildings, the…
16th-century religious revolution.
The tradition of individuals seeking psychological, spiritual, or practical self-improvement outside formal clinical settings.
Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa: the Trinitarian formula and the mystical ascent (epektasis).
Bunyan's Holy War and Pilgrim's Progress; C.
Faith seeking understanding: Anselm, Aquinas, Llull.
Seventeenth-century French Augustinian movement around Port-Royal; Pascal's Pensees as its apologetic monument.
Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises: a disciplined programme of imaginative prayer and discernment.
Ramon Llull's Ars Magna and Tree of Science, carried through Bruno to Leibniz's calculus; mechanical combination of concepts.
Christian thought from the Church Fathers to the high Middle Ages on time, history and the ages of the world: Augustine's six ages, Bede's reckoning of time, Joachim of Fiore's three ages.