Comments on: Mysticism, Part 1 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/03/mysticism-part-1.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:23:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rev Judith Hirsch-Fikejs http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/03/mysticism-part-1.html#comment-26044 Rev Judith Hirsch-Fikejs Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:44:42 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/03/mysticism-part-1.html#comment-26044 I was searching for blog references to Julian of Norwich ( she is a main "player" in my D. Min. dissertation) when I stumbled on your article. As A. W. Tozer is one of my all-time favorite Protestant "mystics" I was fascinated at finding out that he loved Julian as well. I was literally blown away by so many of your comments. My husband was also astonished when I was reading some of them to him. "Are you sure you didn't write that in another life?" (Not that we believe in incarnation, but . . . well, you know . . .) I, too, have encountered the anti-mystic so often and now that I am working toward the D. Min. in Spiritual Formation at Azusa Pacific University, I am glorying in the opportunity to not only connect so many of my Protestant "reads" of the past and present with some of my favorite mystical writers of the past. I love putting Julian together with Thomas a Kempis, especially as they both came out of the same seed bed of theology re: salvation and a view of Christ's death on the cross as so aptly written by Hugh of St. Victor and others of that 14th-15th century time. Thanks for writing it all so well and for daring to mix it up with believers of the past. Well done, my brother!! I was searching for blog references to Julian of Norwich ( she is a main “player” in my D. Min. dissertation) when I stumbled on your article. As A. W. Tozer is one of my all-time favorite Protestant “mystics” I was fascinated at finding out that he loved Julian as well. I was literally blown away by so many of your comments. My husband was also astonished when I was reading some of them to him. “Are you sure you didn’t write that in another life?” (Not that we believe in incarnation, but . . . well, you know . . .) I, too, have encountered the anti-mystic so often and now that I am working toward the D. Min. in Spiritual Formation at Azusa Pacific University, I am glorying in the opportunity to not only connect so many of my Protestant “reads” of the past and present with some of my favorite mystical writers of the past. I love putting Julian together with Thomas a Kempis, especially as they both came out of the same seed bed of theology re: salvation and a view of Christ’s death on the cross as so aptly written by Hugh of St. Victor and others of that 14th-15th century time. Thanks for writing it all so well and for daring to mix it up with believers of the past. Well done, my brother!!

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]]> By: Bene D http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/03/mysticism-part-1.html#comment-25608 Bene D Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:25:11 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/03/mysticism-part-1.html#comment-25608 What did I learn about the Character of God? Incommunicable - transcendent, unchangeable, eternal, omnipresent. Communicable - spiritual, all knowing, loving, wise, truthful, faithful, pure, merciful, grace, peace, gentle, strong, patient, joy, calm (in control), just, good, righteous, complete, beautiful, just, generous, protective, comforter, trustworthy. A divine mirth, a delight in us, being beloved. This is clumsy, incomplete, I don't have enough words. What did I learn about the Character of God?

Incommunicable – transcendent, unchangeable, eternal, omnipresent.

Communicable – spiritual, all knowing, loving, wise, truthful, faithful, pure, merciful, grace, peace, gentle, strong, patient, joy, calm (in control), just, good, righteous, complete, beautiful, just, generous, protective, comforter, trustworthy. A divine mirth, a delight in us, being beloved.

This is clumsy, incomplete, I don’t have enough words.

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