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Article: Julian's Way: A Practical Commentary on Julian of Norwich.(Brief Article)
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- August 13, 1993
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By Ritamary Bradley, HarperCollins, $14, 231 pp.
Katz's volume is the third he has edited and contributed to over the past fifteen years. Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (1978) argued strenuously that all mystical experience is mediated experience (religious and cultural) and, as a consequence, those that hold for the fundamental sameness in mysticism (e.g., the philosophia perennis) are wrong. In Mysticism and Religious Traditions (1983), Katz (and his contributors) set out to demolish the common perception that mystics are, of necessity or by vocation, peripheral to religious traditions as well as the object of suspicion. Both of these volumes, especially ...