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Christian Mystics: The Spiritual Heart of the Christian Tradition. by King, Ursula.  New York, NY: Simon & Schuster 1998. This profound and elegant volume focuses on fifty-four men and women whose great devotion and mystical relation to God transformed the times in which they lived and continue to affect religion today. Beginning with major figures in early Christianity, continuing through the great flowering of mysticism during the Middle Ages, and culminating with the mystics of the twentieth century, this beautiful and inspiring book presents a moving history of the quest for spiritual meaning and transcendence.

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