Mysticism After ModernityIn Mysticism After Modernity, Don Cupitt argues that the extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested upon a mistake - the belief that there can be meaningful experience prior to language. |
Contents
The Mysticism of Secondariness | 1 |
Theories of Mysticism in Modernity | 30 |
Dogmatic Theology is an Ideology of Absolute | 46 |
Mysticism is a Kind of Writing | 57 |
How Mystical Writing Produces Religious | 67 |
The Politics of Mysticism | 80 |
Mystical Writing was the Forerunner | 93 |
Meltdown | 106 |
Happiness | 123 |
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