Index Abba Serapion, 222 poetic discourse, 75, 79–81, 86, 87 Abdisho Hazzaya (Joseph Hazzaya), 180, sacred acoustics, 81–84 184–185, 186 Song of Songs, 77–79, 80, 81 Abe, Masao, 619 spiritual senses, 74–75, 77, 81, 86–87, Abelard, Peter, 70 316, 318, 363, 373, 397, 507–509, Abhishikhtananda, Swami, 525, 615, 621 511, 512 Abrahamic religions, 612, 616, 620–621 Aetius, 162, 163–165, 166–167, 169, 170, absence, 4, 519 173 Acarie, Barbe, 441, 444, 447–448 affectiones, 566 Acarie, Pierre, 447 affections, 13, 245, 294, 363, 381 Achard, 251 affective knowing, 75 Achilles, Andreas, 480 affective mysticism, 293 Adam and Eve, 553–556 Agnès de Jésus, 446 Adams, Hannah, 457 Agnes of Assisi, 288 Addison, Charles Morris, 462, 465, 466, Agnes of Prague, 289, 290 468 Ahlgren, Gillian, 99, 430 Adelphios of Edessa, 179–180 Akhmatova, Anna, 498 Advaita, 526, 612, 615 Akiba/Akiva (Rabbi), 43, 110, 125, 126, Aelred of Rievaulx, 238, 239, 248, 308, 127, 128, 129, 131 358 al-Hallaj, 621 aesthetics Alacoque, Marguerite-Marie, 442–443, apophatic aesthetics, 84–86, 87 517 beauty, 74 Alan of Lille, 49 definitions, 76–77COPYRIGHTEDAlbert MATERIALthe Great, 58 doxology, 75, 82, 83, 87 Albigensians, 330 eroticism, 77–79, 80 Albrecht, Ruth, 20 see also erotic imagery Alcott, Bronson, 460–461 God as artisan, 75, 512 Alexander I (Tsar), 495 iconoclastic controversies, 76 Alexander of Hales, 291 Platonism, 74, 75, 80, 85, 87 Alfeyev, Hilarion, 497 The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism, First Edition. 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Published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. bindex.indd 626 11/23/2016 3:56:14 PM INDEX 627 allegorical interpretation of scripture, 32, apophatic negation, 6, 16, 17, 41–42, 53, 60, 83, 149, 204, 253, 273 182, 222, 269, 276, 278, 294, 295, allegory, 217, 218 312, 342–343, 344–345, 348, 352, bridal mysticism see bridal mysticism; Song 414, 509, 511, 512, 544–545 of Songs see also negative theology early Christian hermeneutics, 59, Aqiba (Rabbi), 43, 110, 125, 126, 127, 128, 60 129, 131 Noah’s Ark, 253, 256–258, Aquinas, Thomas, 58, 69, 340, 536, 612 263 aesthetics, 76, 79 Origen’s use of, 149, 157 Neo-Thomism, 502, 505, 520, 539 see also metaphors Aramaic, 177 Alston, William P., 552 Arendt, Hannah, 394 alumbradismo/alumbrados, 90, 98, 99, 100, Arianism, 143, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 429 168, 169, 207 Ambrose, 61, 82, 200, 219 Aristotle, 57, 58, 61, 140, 164 Ambrose, Isaac, 539 Arius, 101, 155, 163 America, 458–468 Arndt, Johann, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, Ana de Jesus, 448 485, 495 Ana de Peña losa, 570 Arnold, Gottfried, 474, 477–478, 479, 482, Ana de St. Bartholomew, 448 485 analogy, 81 ascent, 11, 14, 28–29, 60, 78–79, anchoritic traditions, 358, 367, 568 260–261, 262, 263 Anderson, Douglas, 5 Angela of Foligno’s thirty mystical Andreev, Daniil, 498 steps, 378–380 Angela of Foligno, 14, 45, 296, 374, Augustine’s Confessions, 190–199 377–380, 475 Catherine of Siena’s mystical bridge, 381 angelification, 135, 136, 141, 260–263, communal life of the church, 203, 212 264 cosmic ladder, 134–135 angels, 135–136, 186 deification, 270, 271, 272, 273, 275–276 hierarchy, 134, 143, 171, 260–263, Enoch, 115, 123–124, 125, 127, 129, 264 130–131, 135 intercession, 136, 137 Four Degrees of Violent Love (Richard of St. Anglo-Saxon monasticism, 217 Victor), 258–259, 360 anima/animus, 44, 46, 48, 120 Itinerarium mentis in Deum/Mind’s Journey Anne of Austria, 439, 445 into God (Bonaventure), 69, 293–295 annihilation, 324–325, 350, 443, 445, 449, Jacob’s ladder, 112–113 621 Ladder of Humility, 224 Anselm of Canterbury, 49, 64, 65, 70, 165, merkabah/merkavah experience, 110, 111, 301, 303, 358, 550–552, 555, 560, 114, 123, 124–129, 131 567, 568 Mystical Ark (Richard of St. Victor), Anthony the Great, 147, 153–155, 179, 256–258, 263 222 Paul’s visions and revelations, 109, 110, antinomianism, 92, 93 131, 185 Aphrahat, 137, 179 stages and states, 181–186 apocalyptic literature, 133, 134, 135, 136, ascetical theology, 539 482 asceticism, 136, 137, 139, 148, 180, 182, apokalypsis, 107, 122 212, 267, 268, 270, 271, 273, 274, apophatic aesthetics, 83–86, 498 87 Asseburg, Rosamunde Juliane von der, 480 apophatic anthropology, 585 Assyrian Christians, 177 apophatic ethics, 344–345 Athanasius, 152, 163, 221 bindex.indd 627 11/23/2016 3:56:14 PM 628 INDEX atonement theory, 301–302 baptism, 272, 273, 419, 604 Augustine of Hippo, 5, 6, 7, 9, 57, 58, 60, Barlaam of Calabria, 277 61, 85, 89, 130, 133, 278, 368, 534 Barnard, G. William, 585 aesthetics, 81–2 Baroque period, 501–502 attention to communal life of the Barth, Karl, 541–542 church, 202–203 Barton, Elisabeth, 572–573 Christ’s ecclesial body, 206–208 Basil (Russian holy fool), 493 eucharist, 205–206 Basil of Caesarea, 162, 164, 167, expositions of scripture, 18, 203–204 269 forgiveness, 209–210 Bassett, Thomas, 361 longing for God, 206 Bavinck, Herman, 541 praise of God, 204–205 Beatitudes (Sermon on the Mount), 179, purification, 209–210 180, 285 sermons, 18, 203–204, 205, 206 Beatrice of Nazareth, 333, sharing goods, 210–212 568 vigils, 205 Beaucousin, Dom, 444 Calvin’s reading of, 416 beauty, 74 Confessions see also aesthetics ascension narrative, 190–199 Becket, Thomas, 247 Book VII, 190–191, 192–196, Bede the Venerable, 217, 227 559 Begga, 330 Book VIII, 191, 197, 504 beghards, 90, 91, 92, 95, 329, 330, Book IX, 191, 192, 197, 198, 560 567–568 Books XI–XIII, 199 beguines, 44–45, 50, 71, 330–334, 338, Book XIII, 200 567–568 reflections on the nature of accused of heresy, 90, 91–92, 94, contemplation, 199–201 100 Vision at Ostia, 191, 192, 197–199 Bely, Audrey, 498 epistemology, 559–560 Belzen, J. A., 589 exposition of the Psalms, 130, 203, 208, Benedict XI (Pope), 317 211 Benedict XII (Pope), 93 influence on Benedictine Benedict of Aniane, 231 monasticism, 216, 219 Benedict of Nursia, 223, 226 influence on Bonaventure, 68 Benedictine monasticism, 30, 288 Manichaean period, 190, 192, 194, daily offices, 217, 220, 223, 226 196 influence of Augustine, 216, 219 Platonic intellectual orientation, 62, 63, John Cassian, 216, 219, 220–223 70, 190–191, 192, 193, 194, 195, key writings, 219 196, 198, 199, 216, 233 Latin language, 218 Trinitarian theology, 62, 63, 143, 363, later developments, 232–233 537 lectiodivina, 217, 219, 225 Augustinians, 329, 330, 334, 336, 337, mixed rules, 230–231 567 prayer, 218, 220–221, 223, 224–225, autobiographies, 16–17 232 Avriot, Barbe (Madame Acarie), 441, 444, Psalms, importance of, 217–218, 447–448 220–221, 223 Rule of Benedict, 216, 223–226, 230–232, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 606 237, 329 Baker, Denise, 363, 369 Berdyaev, Nicholas, 490, 493, 495–496 Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 84, 506, 507, 509, Berengar of Landorra, 93 511, 512 Berger, Peter, 578 bindex.indd 628 11/23/2016 3:56:14 PM INDEX 629 Bernard of Clairvaux, 15, 18, 46, 53, body–mind dualism, 53–54, 80, 509, 64–65, 81, 85, 86, 100, 248, 249, 511 292, 308, 309, 335, 391 Byzantine tradition, 273 Calvin’s reading of, 416, 418, 419 neuroscience and, 605–606 commentary on the Song of Boehme (Böhme), Jakob, 52, 456, 474, 475, Songs, 30–32, 43–44, 79, 83, 237, 476, 481, 485, 495, 496 238–242, 245, 358, 567 Boethius, 49, 61, 64, 351 early life, 237 Bojaxhiu, Agnes Gonxha (Mother Teresa of influence on Pietism, 473 Calcutta), 519 Luther’s reading of, 410, 412, Bolshakoff, Sergius, 497 420 Bonaventure, 19, 49, 57, 66, 68–70, 71, 85, preaching against heresy, 89 264, 335, 501, 536 see also Cistercians Franciscan mystical theology, 282, Bernard Silvestris, 49 290–295, 312, 316, 317 Berrigan, Daniel, 523 interpretations by modern Catholic Bérulle, Pierre de, 444–445, 446, 447, 448, theologians, 507–510, 511, 516 512 Bérullian tradition, 443, 444–447, 516– Itinerarium mentis in Deum/Mind’s Journey 517 into God, 69, 293–295 Betke, Joachim, 476 life of Francis narrated by, 291–293, Bible 312 Daniel, 135 ordo contemplativus, 313, 315 exegesis see exegesis sermon on the feast of St. Francis Exodus, 194 (1266), 314 Genesis, 130, 177, 553–556 theological aesthetic, 74, 84 New Testament see New Testament Trinitarian theology, 292 Pietist readings, 476–477, 481–482 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 543 poetics, 75, 81 Boniface VIII (Pope), 322 prophetic writings, 122–123, 124, 128, Boniface IX (Pope), 95 130, 134, 493 Borgia, Francis, 426, 430, 431 Proverbs, 150 Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne, 449, 450 Psalms, 18, 130, 203, 208, 211 Bourignon, Antoinette, 456, 484 importance in Benedictine Bouyer, Louis, 582 monasticism, 217–218, 220–221, Bowden, Hugh, 611, 612 223 Boyarin, Jonathan, 131 Song of Songs see Song of Songs Boyd, K., 605 translations, 18 Brague, Rémi, 389 Bible of Berleburg, 484 brain Bilinkoff, Jodi, 429 consciousness and, 603, binitarian monotheism, 141, 142 606 birthing, 345–346, 349–350 development, learning, and Black Elk, Nicholas, 7, 523, 525–526 experience, 597–600 Blake, William, 458 evolution, 595 Blavatsky, Helen, 498, 520 intrinsic activity and complexity Blok, Alexander, 495, 498 theory, 601–603, 606 Blondel, Maurice, 503, 506–507 measurement of activity, 594, 600–601 blood- and wound-mysticism, 482–484 memory, 599–600 Blount, Thomas, 454 plasticity, 598 Bloy, Leon, 517 Brautmystik, 32 Blumenberg, Hans, 393–394, see also bridal mysticism 398 Breckling, Friedrich, 476 bindex.indd 629 11/23/2016 3:56:14 PM 630 INDEX Brianchaninov, Ignatius, 49 Symeon the New Theologian, 83, 133, bridal mysticism, 42, 47–48, 253, 254, 255, 268, 274–276 334, 414, 418 theosis, 270, 271, 273, 275, 276, 278 aesthetics, 79 Brautmystik, 32 Caesarius of Heisterbach, 309 Helfta mysticism, 302–303, 304, 308 Cajal, Ramon,