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Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism

Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism

Cameron, Esther
Buber, Martin
Mendes-Flohr, Paul

Paperback

Series: Martin Buber Library

PhilosophyMetaphysical GeneralReligion General

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 081560422X
ISBN13: 9780815604228
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Nov 1 1996
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

Ecstatic Confessions is Martin Buber's unique, personal gathering of the testimonies of mystics throughout the centuries expressing their encounters with the divine. It features the author's seminal introduction to mysticism, Ecstasy and Confession, which probes the nature of what Buber terms the most inward of all experiences. . . . God's highest gift.

Buber sifted through texts from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim sources down the centuries to cull those moving records that manage to convey some quality of an experience that is essentially beyond the power of words to capture. Ecstatic Confessions orchestrates these reports from the edge of human experience into a revealing look at the nature of the ecstatic experience itself and the tension arising from the mystic's compelling need to give witness to an event that can never truly be verbalized.

Ecstatic Confessions illuminates the intellectual development of its author even as it probes the almost insurmountable barrier between language and authentic mystical experience, which is, in essence, beyond the grasp of rational constructs.

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