TagDenys the Areopagite

In the final chapter of The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Denys Turner asserts that our contemporary ideas of what constitutes "mysticism" have tended to focus on a kind of experientialism that would seem very foreign to the historical authors we classify as mystical theologians.  Rather, beginning with observations offered by Andrew Louth on the mystical theology of Denys...