Preface by Louis Jacobs to Lawrence Fine, Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, The Beginning of Wisdom (Paulist Press, 1984). “Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.” This saying, attributed to Dean Inge, a pioneer in the study of mysticism for its relevance to the world of the twentieth century, provides an adequate…
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