Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy

David Lewin is Lecturer in Education at Strathclyde University. His recent publications include articles in the Journal of Philosophy of Education, Ethics and Education, and the European Journal of Special Educational Needs. He is co-editor of New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education (Bloomsbury, 2014) and has recently published a monograph for Routledge entitled Educational Philosophy for a Post-Secular AgeSimon D. Podmore is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University and co-convenor, with Louise Nelstrop, of the Mystical Theology Network. He is author of Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (Indiana University Press, 2011) and Struggling With God: Kierkegaard and the Temptation of Spiritual Trial (James Clarke & Co., 2013). He is currently writing a monograph entitled Dark Night of the Holy, exploring a theological account of the Negative Numinous in Mystical Theology. Duane Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Department at Liverpool Hope University. He is editor of the journal Medieval Mystical Theology, a trustee of the Eckhart Society, and a co-facilitator of the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion. He is the author of the monograph The Linguistic Christ, and is to soon publish a new monograph titled Language and Being: Heidegger's Linguistics.

• Introduction: Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy: Interchange in the Wake of GodPart 1: Receiving Mystical Tradition in Post/Modernity1 Learning Presence: The Mystical Text as Intimate Hyper-communication across timeOliver Davies2 God of Luria, Hegel, Schelling: The Divine Contraction and the Modern Metaphysics of FinitudeAgata Bielik-Robson3 From Text to Presence: Ricoeur and Medieval Monastic Biblical ContemplationJoseph MilnePart 2: Apophasis and Continental Philosophy4 Different Deserts: Deconstructionism and Dionysian Apophaticism Maria Exall5 The Apophatic Dimension of RevelationMiroslav Griško6 Augustine, Dionysius and Jean-Luc MarionRico MongePart 3: Revisiting Eckhart through Heidegger7 The Role of Mysticism in the Formation of Heidegger’s PhenomenologyGeorge Pattison8 Eckhart’s Why and Heidegger’s What: Beyond Subjectivistic Thought to Groundless GroundDuane Williams9 Meister Eckhart's Speculative Grammar: a Foreshadowing of Heidegger’s Der Satz vom Grund?Christopher M. Wojtulewicz10 Pay Attention! Exploring Contemplative Pedagogies between Eckhart and HeideggerDavid LewinPart 4: Re-readings and New Boundaries11 Mysterium Secretum et Silentoisum: Praying the Apophatic Self Simon D. Podmore12 Becoming Mystic, Becoming Monster: The Logic of the Infinite in Kierkegaard, Cusa, and DeleuzeSteven Shakespeare13 Non-philosophical Immanence, or Immanence without S

"It is a collection worth the time of any scholar who finds themselves at the intersection of mystical theology and continental philosophy whether in search of a new ground or not."- Jason Blakeburn, McGill University, Quebec