{"title":"Christian Mysticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMedieval and early modern writers on prayer, union with God and the inner life, in translations made before 1930.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dialogue-catherine-of-siena","title":"The Dialogue of Catherine of Siena","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine Benincasa was a dyer's daughter from Siena who never learned to write with ease and who, in 1370, dictated this book to secretaries while in a state she and they described as ecstasy. She was in her twenties. Within a decade she was writing to popes and telling them what to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dialogue is built as a conversation. Catherine puts four petitions to God, and the answers run to 148 chapters grouped into four treatises: divine providence, discretion, prayer, and obedience. God speaks for most of it, and the voice is domestic rather than remote, reaching for bridges, trees, cellars, wine, and a mirror to explain itself. The famous image of Christ as a bridge thrown across a flooded river takes up a large part of the middle. Readers who know her only as a saint on a holy card tend to be surprised by how argumentative she is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Reclaimed Press edition uses Algar Thorold's 1896 translation, the first English version of the complete text, with his introduction on mysticism and working chapter navigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e EPUB, DRM-free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reclaimed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50611000148033,"sku":"CATHERINE-DIALOGUE-EPUB","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9804\/1153\/files\/cover_e5d0485e-7be6-4469-abbc-994af7dc83b7.png?v=1791131307"},{"product_id":"meister-eckhart-sermons-and-sayings","title":"Meister Eckhart: Sermons and Sayings","description":"\u003cp\u003eEckhart was a Dominican, a Paris master, and a provincial of his order, and he preached in German to nuns and lay people rather than in Latin to scholars. That is why he is readable and why he got into trouble. He died in 1328 while his case was still open in Avignon; a papal bull condemned seventeen of his propositions the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sermons work by pressing a phrase until it gives way. God is not good, he says, because calling God good measures him against something. The soul has a spark in it that was never created and never will be. A man who has truly let go wants nothing, knows nothing, has nothing. Around the sermons this volume sets the tractates, including the piece on detachment and the strange narrative of Sister Katrei, then the sayings and the Liber Positionum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Reclaimed Press edition uses C. de B. Evans's 1924 translation of the Pfeiffer text, with every sermon, tractate and saying under its own title and working chapter navigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e EPUB, DRM-free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reclaimed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50611000508481,"sku":"ECKHART-SERMONS-COLLATIONS-EPUB","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9804\/1153\/files\/cover_955b39e7-7d32-44eb-9abc-bcd0f8e3ddf5.png?v=1791131330"}],"url":"https:\/\/reclaimedpress.com\/collections\/christian-mysticism.oembed","provider":"Reclaimed Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}