History of Theology/Theology of History

Abstract: McGinn’s Modern Mystics serves as a coda to his multivolume history, The Presence of God , but also stands as an introduction of sorts. It situates that historical project among the mystical authors of the twentieth century, but more importantly it begins to address the deeper connection between history and theology manifested in McGinn’s scholarship. To see this, one can attend to McGinn’s engagements with Marie-Dominique Chenu, Simone Weil, and Bernard Lonergan.