7/5/2023 0 Comments Practical mysticism underhillIn this she laid out the stages of the mystic life and illustrated this development with quotes from the great mystics themselves. Underhill began as scholar of mysticism publishing her ground-breaking book, Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness,in 1911 it has never been out of print for the last hundred and seventeen years. Eliot who hailed her as a writer attuned to the great spiritual hunger of her contemporaries, and Michael Ramsey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, who attested that she did more than anyone else to keep the spiritual life alive in Anglicanism in the interwar period. Her life’s work and achievement were confirmed by her friend T. Evelyn Underhill, the Anglican religious writer, had a leading role in the first half of the twentieth century in reviving interest in mysticism and translating the insights of the great mystics for the ordinary person.
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