The author reflects on the role of modern mystics in understanding community and transformation in the context of modernity, indicating its profound relevance.
The author responds to essays by four scholars on Modern Mystics and reflects on the process of writing the book. He addresses key themes from Modern Mystics and explores how mystics experience God through mediated immediacy, paradox, and community. To study modern mystics raises questions about the status of modernity and postmodernity, but most of all it means re-thinking the meaning of presence and transformation.
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