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Moses, Mount Sinai, and early Christian Mystics with Ann Conway-Jones

Moses, Mount Sinai, and early Christian Mystics with Ann Conway-Jones

Moses’ encounter with God on the summit of Mount Sinai, as told in the biblical book of Exodus, contains a number of peculiarities and paradoxes. Early Christian mystics seized on these as clues to the spiritual understanding of Moses’ experiences,...

The Spanish Mystics: Ecstasy and Communion with Peter Tyler

The Spanish Mystics: Ecstasy and Communion with Peter Tyler

In these four talks, Peter Tyler explores the factors that contributed to the rise of mystical writing in 16th Century Spain. He traces the particular history of the Peninsula that shaped the milieu within which mysticism flourished at this time.One...

The Wisdom of the Desert with Nicholas Buxton

The Wisdom of the Desert with Nicholas Buxton

The course begins by looking at the origins of Christian monasticism during the third century CE, when thousands of men and women renounced the world and withdrew to the deserts of Egypt, Syria and Palestine to seek God in a life of solitude and...