The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition

I. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.- The "Dromenon" in the Hermetic Initiative Texts,Endre Hamvas.- Mystical Experience in the Theurgical Practice, Anna Judit Tóth.- Gymnastics of the Mind: The Theory of gymnos nous in Maximus the Confessor, Miklós Vassányi.- Ascending to the Third Heaven. Csaba Németh.- The Experience of God in the Mystical Language of Meister Eckhart, Ferenc Bányai.- Hugo van der Goes reading Johannes Tauler? A Literary Context for the Berlin Nativity, Geert Warnar.- Mediating the Immediate: Richard Rolle's Mystical Experience in the Translations of his Self-Revelations, Tamás Karáth.- Confined Meditation or Mediated Contemplation, Zsuzsanna Péri-Nagy.- Gott, er war zu verwegen. Der Held als Medium der Gotteserfahrung im Tristanstoff des 12. Jahrhunderts, Petra Rosswaag.- II. Early Modernity.- What is the Purpose of Human Life? Immediate Experience of God in Pico's Works, Monika Frazer-Imregh.- Figure del misticismo di Giordano Bruno, Antonio Dall'Igna.- Communicative Experience of God in Prayer, Martin Moors.- What (if Anything) can Justify the Objective Truth of an Alleged Immediate Experience of God? Théogène Havugimana.- III. Modern and Postmodern Times.- sources de la mystique de Simone Weil, Enikö Sepsi.- The Mystical after Auschwitz, Balázs Mezei.- "Ein Spiel der Worte, in dem das "Urwirkliche" atmet." The Birth of the Mystical Word According to Carl Albrecht, Anikó Daróczi.- "A World in Which Everything is 'Here.'" Northrop Frye's Immanent Vision of the Divine, Sára Tóth.- A Lonely Lutheran Mystic in Communist Hungary. The Spiritual Heritage of Bishop Lajos Ordass, Tibor Fabiny.- 'It is the Mind that Hears it, not the Ears..." An Anthropological Approach to Visions, Irén Lovász.- Experience of God, Reflected by Projective Drawings, Zsuzsanna Mirnics - Judit Seres - Zoltán Vass.