The Christian Mystics Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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The Christian Mystics Podcast

Contemplative Light

Religion & Spirituality

Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 8

This is a course on the lives of 20 Christian Mystics. We cover the lives, works, and teachings of twenty great Christian mystics, including St. Francis, St. John of The Cross, Theresa of Avila and more. New episodes will be added weekly. Contemplative Light provides education and resources in a global effort towards inner transformation through contemplative prayer and meditation. Find out more at contemplativelight.org

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ST. BONAVENTURE (1221-1274)

Episode 8

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 • Duration 30:22

A prolific scholar, cleric, writer, and statesman, Bonaventure studied in Paris alongside Thomas Aquinas and became one of the foremost Franciscan intellectuals. His mystical works included The Soul's Journey Into God and The Mystical Vine.

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MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG (1210-1282)

Episode 7

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 • Duration 21:03

Mechthild had her first mystical vision at age 12 and later joined the lay Beguine movement. She became a Dominican tertiary and with the encouragement of the Dominicans, composed the spiritual classic The Flowing Light of the Godhead.

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RAMON LLULL (1232-1316)

Episode 6

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 • Duration 12:51

A visionary mystic, Llull advocated the conversion of Muslims through prayer not military action. A prolific writer and Franciscan tertiary, Llull developed a philosophical system in a work called the Ars Magna to help other Christians convert Muslims. Bonaventure studied deeply of Llull's work, bringing it to a higher prominence.

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ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (1181-1226)

Episode 5

Saturday, May 16, 2020 • Duration 24:24

The beloved monk and founder of the Franciscan Order, St. Francis embraced a life of simplicity and poverty, spreading a message of God's universal, boundless love for all creation.

Contemplative Light has a class on Contemplative Practices.

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RICHARD OF ST. VICTOR (1110 – 1173)

Episode 4

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 • Duration 19:13

Richard was a systematic mystical theologian, who sought to defend the use of reason and logic to provide a framework for faith, whose contributed a key notion of condilection, or mutual love of a third being a central characteristic of the Trinity.

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HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (1098-1179)

Episode 3

Monday, April 27, 2020 • Duration 25:25

Abbess, artist, composer, Hildegard was a visionary German mystic who shared her cosmic vision that God's love extended both outward to the vast expanse of the universe and inward to the individual human psyche.

Contemplative Light provides education and resources in a global effort towards inner transformation through contemplative prayer and meditation.

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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090-1153)

Episode 2

Monday, April 20, 2020 • Duration 14:14

A great reformer of the Benedictine order in the 12th century, Bernard was instrumental in re-emphasizing the importance of lectio divina and contemplation on Scripture within the Cistercian order. Bernard observed that when lectio divina was neglected monasticism suffered. Bernard considered lectio divina and contemplation guided by the Holy Spirit the keys to nourishing Christian spirituality.

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DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE (5TH-6TH CENTURY)

Episode 1

Monday, April 13, 2020 • Duration 29:26

Drawing on Neoplatonic teachings of Plotinus and Christianity, Dionysius was the first the write an explicitly Mystical Theology in which he wrote of the divine darkness that transcends concepts, language, and image.

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