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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION
PART III CRITICAL
CHAPTER IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS
Introductory.
I. Catherine’s Third Period, 1497 to 1510.
II. Conclusions Concerning Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition During This Last Period.
III. Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition, its Likeness and Unlikeness To Hysteria.
IV. First Period of Catherine’s Life, 1447 to 1477, in its Three Stages.
V. The Second, Great Middle Period of Catherine’s Life, 1477 to 1499.
VI. Three Rules which seem to govern the Relations between Psycho-physical Peculiarities and Sanctity in general.
VII. Perennial Freshness of the Great Mystics’ Main Spiritual Test, in Contradistinction To Their Secondary, Psychological Contention. Two Special Difficulties.
CHAPTER X THE MAIN LITERARY SOURCES OF CATHERINE’S CONCEPTIONS
INTRODUCTORY.
I. The Pauline Writings: the Two Sources of their Pre-Conversion Assumptions; Catherine’s Preponderant Attitude towards each Position.
II. The Joannine Writings.
III. The Areopagite Writings.
IV. Jacopone Da Todi’s “lode.”
V. Points Common to all Five Minds; and Catherine’s Main Difference from her Four Predecessors.
CHAPTER XI CATHERINE’S LESS ULTIMATE THIS-WORLD DOCTRINES
Introductory: Catherine’s less ultimate Positions, concerning our Life here, are Four.
I. Interpretative Religion.
II. Dualistic Attitude towards the Body.
III. Quietude and Passivity. Points in this tendency to be considered here.
IV. Pure Love, or Disinterested Religion: its Distinction from Quietism.
CHAPTER XII THE AFTER-LIFE PROBLEMS AND DOCTRINES
I. The Chief Present-day Problems, Perplexities, and Requirements with Regard to the After-Life in General.
II. Catherine’s General After-Life Conceptions.
III. Catherine and Eternal Punishment.
IV. Catherine and Purgatory.
V. Catherine and Heaven—Three Perplexities to be considered.
CHAPTER XIII THE FIRST THREE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MORALITY, MYSTICISM, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION. MYSTICISM AND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE. MYSTICISM AND THE NATURE OF EVIL
I. The Relations between Morality and Mysticism Philosophy and Religion.
II. Mysticism and the Limits of Human Knowledge and Experience.
III. Mysticism and the Question of Evil.
CHAPTER XIV THE TWO FINAL PROBLEMS: MYSTICISM AND PANTHEISM. THE IMMANENCE OF GOD, AND SPIRITUAL PERSONALITY, HUMAN AND DIVINE
INTRODUCTORY. Impossibility of completely abstracting from the theoretical form in the study of the experimental matter.
I. Relations between the General and the Particular, God and Individual Things, according to Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists, and the Medieval Strict Realists.
II. Relations between God and the Human Soul.
III. Mysticism and Pantheism: their Differences and Points of Likeness.
IV. The Divine Immanence; Spiritual Personality.
CHAPTER XV SUMMING UP OF THE WHOLE BOOK. BACK THROUGH ASCETICISM, SOCIAL RELIGION, AND THE SCIENTIFIC HABIT OF MIND, TO THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION.
I. Asceticism and Mysticism.
II. Social Religion and Mysticism.
III. The Scientific Habit and Mysticism.
IV. Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of the Whole Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the Almost Inevitable Mutual Hostility, of the Three Great Forces of the Soul and of the Three Corresponding Elements of Religion.
INDEX
I. OF SUBJECT-MATTERS
II. OF LITERARY REFERENCES
Holy Scripture—Old Testament
New Testament
FOOTNOTES
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