Abstract: In Modern Mystics , Bernard McGinn encourages his readers to practice lectio divina , a process of contemplative reading that cultivates receptivity to wisdom. I propose that McGinn’s attention to mystical vision and imaginative seeing also amounts to a kind of visio divina as a contemplative visual practice, one that is complementary to lectio divina , both in McGinn’s book and in the lives of the mystics he describes. Two late medieval examples of visual devotional praxis illustrate analogically how visio divina can deepen sacramental insight.
Leah Buturain Schneider (Mon,) studied this question.