Mysticism and Catholicism – Hugh Stutfield (1925) (1st ed)

S$69.00

Mysticism and Catholicism – Hugh Stutfield (1925) (1st ed)

S$69.00

Title: Mysticism and Catholicism

Author: Hugh E. M. Stutfield

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1925. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. Some foxing to edges and endpapers. Binding tight, text clean. 255pp. Ap 7″ by 5″.

Contents:

  1. Preliminary Considerations
  2. What is Mysticism?
  3. The Old Basic Principles
  4. The Psychological Aspect
  5. The Ingredient of Terror
  6. Nature Mysticism
  7. The Mysteries
  8. Some Early Syncretists
  9. Gnosticism
  10. The Dry-Rot of Asceticism
  11. The Logos
  12. The Logos at Nicea
  13. Demonology
  14. Dangers of Ecstasy
  15. The Twilights of Mysticism
  16. Foregleams of Christianity
  17. Osculatory Mysticism
  18. Quietism
  19. A Sordid Interlude
  20. Religion and Social Order
  21. The New Mysticism