John of the Cross and the Cognitive Value of Mysticism: An Analysis of Sanjuanist Teaching and its P

One / John of the Cross.- 1.1. Preliminary Remarks.- 1.2. The Man.- 1.3. The Texts.- Two / The Doctrine of St. John of the Cross: The Structure of the Human Person.- 2.1. The Sensory Part of the Soul.- 2.1.1. The Body.- 2.1.2. The Exterior Senses.- 2.1.3. The Interior Senses.- 2.2. The "Spiritual Part" of the Soul.- 2.2.1. The Intellect.- 2.2.2. The Will.- 2.2.3. The Memory.- 2.2.4. "Spiritual Senses" and "The Substance of the Soul".- Three / The Doctrine of St. John of the Cross: The Dynamics of Spiritual Development.- 3.1. The Starting Point: Human Existence as "Fallen".- 3.2. The Stages and Means of Spiritual Growth.- 3.2.1. Beginners and the Passive Night of Sense.- 3.2.2. Proficients, the Passive Night of Spirit, and Spiritual Espousal.- 3.2.3. "Perfect" Souls, Spiritual Marriage, and the Unitive Way.- 3.3. The Goal of Religious Development.- Four / Some Transitional Observations on the Nature of Christian Mysticism and the Data to Be Explained.- 4.1. Toward a More Adequate Characterization of Christian Mysticism.- 4.2. The Data to Be Explained.- Five / Some Objections Considered.- 5.1 Objections Based on the Problem of Inter-Subjective Agreement.- 5.1.1. Disagreement Between Mystics and Non-Mystics.- 5.1.2. Disagreement Among Mystics Themselves.- 5.1.3. The Role of the Mystics' Prior Beliefs in Shaping Their Experiences.- 5.2. Objections Based on the Issue of Testability.- 5.3. Other Objections.- Six / Mysticism and the Explanatory Mode of Inference.- 6.1. Explanations and the Explanatory Mode of Inference.- 6.2. Competing Explanations of Mysticism.- 6.2.1. The Hypothesis that Mysticism is a Cognitive Mode of Experience.- 6.2.2. Reductive Psychoanalytical Accounts of Mysticism.- 6.2.3. Reductive Psychological Accounts of Mysticism.- 6.2.4. Reductive Physiological Accounts of Mysticism.- 6.2.5. Reductive Sociological or Anthropological Accounts of Mysticism.- 6.3. The Reasonableness of Accepting Mysticism as a Cognitive Mode of Experience.- Seven / Conclusions.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.