Review

This series more than any other has resurrected interest in whole legions of spiritual writers who would otherwise have been neglected...a good, clear and helpful read. A useful reference that is a good addition to present scholarship on the subject. Peter Tyler, Food for the Journey - Books

I breathed a sigh of relief when I finished reading this volume. Finally, I had found a comprehensive book about Christian mysticism that I could assign to undergraduates without losing their interest, aiming too far over their heads, or obfuscating certain key issues...this is an excellent study of many aspects of and figures within the Christian mystical tradition.

–Joanne Maguire Robinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Religious Studies Review, October 2002

The book has remarkable breadth, offering a whirlwind tour through the lives of dozens of Christian mystics from all major branches of Christianity from ancient times to the present... Fanning's selection of primary source quotations is uniformly outstanding..

–The Journal of Religion

Product Description

From visions and voices to self-torture and levitation, mystical phenomena have shaped the Christian heritage. Spanning two thousand years of Christian history, Mystics of the Christian Tradition examines the lives, times, and mystical experiences of almost one hundred Christian mystics from Jesus to the later Roman Catholic saints.