The Mysticism of Ordinary Life

Andrew Prevot is Associate Professor in the Theology Department at Boston College. He earned an MTS and PhD in Systematic Theology from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in Philosophy from The Colorado College. He is the author of Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity and Theology and Race: Black and Womanist Traditions in the United States and co-editor of Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics. He has published over thirty essays and articles on topics in mystical theology, philosophical theology, and political theology.

• Foreword, by Maria Clara Bingemer Introduction: A New Vision of Christian Mystical Theology Part 1: Catholic Mystical Theologians in the Twentieth Century 1: Grace in the Ordinary: The Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner 2: Obedience, Love, and Suffering: The Mystical Theology of Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar Part 2: Christian Mysticism and Postmodern Philosophy 3: Immanence and Alterity: The Mystical Styles of Michel Henry and Michel de Certeau 4: The Other Within: Constructs of Mystical Femininity in Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva Part 3: Intersectional Feminism: Mystical Traditions from the American Side of the Atlantic 5: The Divine in Between: Gloria Anzaldúa, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, and Other Mestizo/a Mystical Sources 6: Divine Darkness Revisited: Alice Walker, M. Shawn Copeland, and Other Womanist and Black Mystical Sources Conclusion

A complex study highlighting a topic that was rarely visited by recent scholars working on spirituality, Andrew Prevot's Mysticism of Ordinary Life,...is a contribution that should stimulate reading, analysis and debate for every researcher in the field of spirituality.