Soul and Consciousness in Christian Mysticism Author: Marion Küstenmacher The Protestant theologian and author Marion Küstenmacher provides an insight into the non-dual mysticism of Christianity. For a long time Christian authorities vilified the representatives of it and punished them as heretics. However, this did not stop the mystics from dedicating themselves to the exploration of …
Beguines, active mystics
Author: Anette Grießer In the Middle Ages there existed female Christian religious communities called Beguines. There women led a relatively self-determined life beyond marriage, motherhood and membership to a nunnery. These communities developed their own living mysticism, in which the encounter and union of the soul with God stood in the foreground. When the creation chapter …