The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism (2024)

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Andrew Prevot

Andrew Prevot

Associate Professor, Boston College Theology Department

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19 January 2023

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Prevot, Andrew, The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Jan. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866967.001.0001, accessed 14 May 2024.

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The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism presents a new vision of Christian mystical theology. It offers critical interpretations of Catholic theologians, postmodern philosophers, and intersectional feminists who draw on mystical traditions to affirm ordinary life. It raises questions about normativity, gender, and race, while arguing that the everyday experience of the grace of divine union can be an empowering source of social transformation. It develops Christian teachings about the Word made flesh, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and the Christian spiritual life, while exploring the mystical significance of philosophical discourses about immanence, alterity, inbetweenness, nothingness, and embodiment. Its discussion of Latino/a and Black sources in North America expands the Western mystical canon and opens new horizons for interdisciplinary dialogue. It challenges contemporary culture to recognize and draw inspiration from quotidian manifestations of the unknown God of incarnate love. It includes detailed studies of Grace Jantzen, Amy Hollywood, Catherine Keller, Karl Rahner, Adrienne von Speyr, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Michel Henry, Michel de Certeau, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Alice Walker, M. Shawn Copeland, and more.

Keywords: mysticism, feminism, intersectional, Black, Latino/a, postmodern, Catholic, Christian, spirituality, theology

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