Yet as a Christian, Julian believed that God’s grace, not her own self, did the lifting. Critchley writes that mysticism “might permit us to push back against the violent pressure of reality ...

In the planning of a move from his long-time Paris apartment during the winter of 1938-39, James Joyce radically downsized ...

has served this movement well with a lifetime of scholarship charting the lives and writings of the mystics (most famously in his multivolume The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian ...