Eschatology
The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology February 25, 2020 H. Feiss
Mystical experience offers a foretaste of heaven, linking eschatology and mysticism. Five examples illustrate this: Gregory the Great on Benedict's final vision of the world in God's light; twelfth-century Victorines on mystical union leading to configuration with Christ and compassionate care; Bernard of Clairvaux on the blessed awaiting full union with God until bodily resurrection; Julian of Norwich on reconciling sin with the belief that all is well; and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on divine presence in matter and humanity's evolution toward Christ. Jean-Yves Lacoste's phenomenology of prayer clarifies these intersections.