Mystical Theology: The Integrity of Spirituality and Theology

Part I: Issues of History and Method.

1. Spirituality and Theology: The Questions at Issue.

2. Mystery and Doctrine: The Historical Integrity of Spirituality and Theology.

3. Recovering the Mystical Element of Theology: The Twentieth-Century Examples of Rahner and von Balthasar.

4. Theological Hermeneutics and Spiritual Texts.

Part II: Mystical Theology in Practice.

5. Trinitarian Self-Abandon and the Problem of Divine Suffering.

6. The Hiddenness of God and the Self-Understanding of Jesus.

7. Love for the Other and Discovery of the Self.

Index.