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Evelyn Underhill was one of the most widely read spiritual writers in the first half of the twentieth century. A prolific writer of letters and diaries as well as novels and spiritual works, she was a popular broadcaster, speaker and retreat leader. Fascinated with the nature and meaning of mystical experiences from childhood, her classic works focused on the spiritual life. Yet, she also valued practical Christian service equally. The Practical Mystic offers an introduction to Underhill’s works, a selection of her writings, and commentary.
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“The Christian mysticism of which Evelyn Underhill was a great exponent does not seek ultimate Reality seen as a transcendent Unity apart from the created world, but as a power that is actively at work in that world, immanent as well as transcendent. The individual soul is not absorbed into the Divine like a drop of water in the ocean, but retains its unique quality and creatureliness within the mystical union. Above all, it is the redemption brought by Christ and the restoration of human nature through his Incarnation that give both assurance and enabling to the quest of the Christian mystic. The essential reality of both transcendence and immanence is at the root of Underhill’s thought.” (Page 13)
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