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STUDIES IN SPIRITUALITY (6/1996; 300 pages)
by the TITUS BRANDSMA INSTITUTE at Nijmegen (The Netherlands).
Titus Brandsma Institute, Erasmusplein 1, 6525 HT Nijmegen, The Netherlands
tel. (Neth.31) 24 361 21 62, fax (Neth.31) 24 361 21 51
e-mail Ineke.Wackers@tbi.kun.nl

Most periodicals on spirituality tend to remain at a very elementary, even introductory, level. With STUDIES IN SPIRITUALITY, however, we have the opportunity to enjoy the insights of western spirituality in a critical and probing manner. These essays offer analytical undertakings that are willing to examine the more difficult and recondite areas of spiritual hermeneutics. The contents provides an example of the periodical’s scope:
KEES WAAIJMAN: The soul as Spiritual Core Concept. A Scriptural Viewpoint
GEERT FRANZENBURG: Die maennliche Mystik des Gregor von Nyssa
JOAN MUELLER: Franciscan Reconciliation. The Struggle to embrace Joy
MICHAEL PLATTIG: Heinrich Seuse als christliche Erosgestalt
HEIN BLOMMESTIJN: Growing toward Likeness. Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen's view of the Spiritual Journey
KAREN-CLAIRE VOSS: Imagination in Mysticism and Esotericism. Marsilio Ficino, Ignatius de Loyola, and Alchemy
JOHN UDRIS: Possessed by Pure Love. The Spirituality of Catherine of Genoa
MACARIO OFILADA MINA: Philosophy and Spirituality. Reflections from St. John of the Cross
EULOGIO PACHO: El gemido pacifico de la esperanza. Sintesis definitiva del pensamiento sanjuanista
CHARLES ANDRE BERNARD: La perception mystique visionnaire
WENDY M. WRIGHT: Salesian Spirituality and the Art of Spiritual Direction
GUNNEL CLEVE: A Query about William Law's Mysticism. Its Relationship to
the Early English Mystics
JAMES E. ROYSTER: Conversion as Turning, Conversion as Deepening
PHILIP SHELDRAKE: The Sacredness of Place
MARINUS VAN UDEN/ JOSEPH PIEPER: Pilgrims going to Santiago. A case study of their Spiritual Experiences
VERONICA BRADY: Towards an Australian Spirituality

The aim of the TITUS BRANDSMA INSTITUTE is to publish scholarly and specialized articles on spirituality and mysticism and so encourage the study of spirituality as a science in continual dialogue with other sciences. They believe that the art of understanding human transformation is best served by the study of spirituality. For this reason, they seek to make available the findings of the most recent research of contemporary scholarship in Spirituality. STUDIES IN SPIRITUALITY covers a wide spectrum: theological questions about spirituality and mysticism; fundamental aspects and phenomena of spiritual transformation; important currents, periods and figures in the different traditions.
As in all periodicals, the essays are of variable quality. Voss’s “Imagination in Mysticism and Esotericism. Marsilio Ficino, Ignatius de Loyola, and Alchemy” is especially insightful, offering an approach to appreciating the elements of the imagination in early science. All essays have precis in English.

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