Bernard McGinn is one is of the greatest living authorities on Catholic historical theology. The Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor (Emeritus) of historical theology and history of Christianity at the University of Chicago, McGinn holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and an S.T.L. from the Pontifical Gregorian University. McGinn has lectured on and written extensively about the history of apocalyptic thought and recently has focused his attention on the fields of spirituality and mysticism. His current long-range project is a seven-volume history of Christian mysticism in the West called The Presence of God.
"Bernard McGinn has enriched the knowledge of our spiritual
tradition as no other work in recent memory has done." Thomist"
"McGinn's Varieties is an astonishing achievement. No one will
approach religious and mystical teaching in the late middle ages
(1300-1550) quite the same again. The broadest and richest account
of Dutch mystical writers, a vision of Italian mystical writing
that puts Catherine of Siena alongside Marsilio Ficino and
Christian kabbalists, a fresh approach to famed English writers
(Rolle, Julian, the Cloud author) fitting them into a larger
religious world all this in one volume, with serious attention to
thought and theology, a close reading of texts, generous citation
of vernacular originals, and weighty bibliographies. It is hard to
imagine one person even attempting it, but McGinn has done it."
John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame"
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