Confronting the Abyss

We find the absent God of mystery once we abandon all our gods of false certainty.

Bernard McGinn (b. 1937) has been described as the leading living scholar on Christian Mysticism. He has written extensively on many topics related to Christian history and spirituality, and his nine volume Magnum Opus, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism is both an indispensable resource and a feast of wisdom and research in i…