{"product_id":"the-inner-eye-of-love-mysticism-and-religion","title":"The Inner Eye of Love: Mysticism and Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Inner Eye of Love offers a contemporary theology of mysticism that locates it at the very center of authentic religious experience. It provides as well a practical guide for meditation even as it maps out the oceanic experience toward which meditation points. Johnston begins with the mystical tradition itself  its roots and origins  its appearance and significance in the Gospels  the letters of Paul  and the early Church. He explains what mysticism is and is not  and how it is inextricably bound up with love. It is at the level of mysticism  he maintains  that the two traditions of East and West can at last understand one another and begin to work together to heal a broken world. The Inner Eye of Love escorts the reader through the stages of the mystical journey  from initial call to final enlightenment. Johnston compares and contrasts the Oriental and Christian experience  continually revealing new points of commonality The much discussed \"dark night of the soul\" is seen here in a positive way  as an emptying preliminary to the overbrimming of the soul with the knowledge and love of God. Finally  the author considers the often misunderstood relation between mysticism and practical action.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958201511989,"sku":"ByrdShop_0823217787","price":37.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780823217786.jpg?v=1770368865","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-inner-eye-of-love-mysticism-and-religion","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}