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Mysticism and language / edited by Steven T. Katz - New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 - vi, 262 p. ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Mystical speech and mystical meaning / Steven T. Katz -- Reification of language in Jewish mysticism / Moshe Idel -- Literal and nonliteral in reports of mystical experience / William P. Alston -- What would Buddhaghosa have made of The cloud of unknowing? / Ninian Smart -- Mystic analogizing and the "peculiarity mystical" / Stephen H. Phillips -- Mysticism and ineffability : some issues of logic and language / Bimal Krishna Matilal -- Fair and unfair language games in Chan/Zen / Bernard Faure -- Mystical language and the teaching context in the early lexicons of Sufism / Carl W. Ernst -- The language of love in Christian and Jewish mysticism / Bernard McGinn -- Bonaventure's mysticism of language / Ewert H. Cousins

ISBN: 0195054555 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 91031701

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mysticism
Language and languages--Religious aspects

LC Class. No.: BL625 / .M885 1992

Dewey Class. No.: ARCH YNDC 291.4 K19M