Background
King, Ursula Maria was born on September 22, 1938 in Cologne, Germany. Daughter of Adolf Brenke and Hedwig Stratmann.
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Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages
(There are many different kinds of mystics in all religion...)
There are many different kinds of mystics in all religions, and in recent years we have become increasingly aware of their existence and heritage. Many people today are drawn to mystics for inspiration and transformation. They offer a message of wholeness and healing, of harmony, peace, and joy; also of immense struggles fought and won. The mystical experience has found richly diverse expression during the two thousand years of Christian history and underpins all of Christian ritual and doctrine-not as a secret divine knowledge but as a deeper spirituality for all believers. By and large, however, the inspiring examples of the Christian mystics are little known. Christian Mystics introduces sixty men and women whose great devotion and mystical relation to God transformed the times in which they lived and continues to affect our search for spirituality today. Beginning with major figures among the early Christians, this beautifully written book moves on to the great flowering of mysticism during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Including a presentation of the Eastern Orthodox mystic tradition and concluding with the mystics of our time, Christian Mystics presents an inspiring history of the quest for spiritual meaning and transcendence. As a leading authority on religious history and mysticism, Ursula King uses both scholarly knowledge and her gifts as a writer to elucidate this profound story of selfless love, encompassing the great breadth and depth of the Christian mystical tradition and the problems and questions mystics face. Christian Mystics offers entrance into a deeper inner dimension that can animate and sustain the life of readers of any faith or none.
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(Spirit of Fire: Life and Vision of Teilhard De Chardin ) Author: Ursula King Feb-1998
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Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages
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Ursula King’s Christian Mystics tells the story of sixty men and women whose mystical devotion to God transformed the times in which they lived and still affects our present-day search for spiritual meaning. Moving from key figures of the early Christian age to the great mystics of modern times, special emphasis is given to the great high points of mysticism in the medieval, early modern and Eastern Orthodox traditions. The lives of visionaries, including Clement of Alexandria, Saint Bonaventure, Blaise Pascal and Simone Weil are studied in detail. It reveals the richly diverse expressions that mystical experience has found during two thousand years of Christian history and shows how it underpins Christian ritual and doctrine as a source of spiritual inspiration for all believers. Beautifully illustrated and written by a prominent name in the British academic world, this significant text has received high acclaim and is the only book to feature biographies of key mystics.
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Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Teilhard De Chardin by King, Ursula (1998) Paperback
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Ursula Maria King
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Ursula Maria King, religious studies educator. S.A. Cook Bye fellow Newnham College, Cambridge, England, 1976-1977; scholar Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bonn, Germany, 1958-1963; grantee French Government, 1960-1963; recipient Gold medal Indian Philosophical Congress, Delhi, 1969. Fellow Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts (life); member American Academy Religion.
Education
Licentiate of Sacred Theology, Institute Catholique, Paris, 1963. Master of Arts, University Delhi, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University London.
Doctor of Divinity(honorary), University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996. Doctor of Theology(honorary), University Oslo, 2000. Doctor of Divinity(honorary), University Dayton, 2003.
Career
Lecturer in divinity Coloma College of Education, West Wickham, England, 1963—1965. Visiting lecturer several institutions, India, 1965-1970. Lecturer University Leeds, England, 1971-1979, senior lecturer, 1979-1989.
Professor theology and religious studies University Bristol, England, 1989—2002, professor emerita England, since 2002. Visiting professor ecumenical theology Xavier University, Cincinnati, 1999. Visiting professor feminist theology University Oslo, 1999-2001.
Bampton lecturer University Oxford, England, 1996.
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Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages
( Ursula King’s Christian Mystics tells the story of sixt...)
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Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages
(There are many different kinds of mystics in all religion...)
- By Ursula King - Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages: 1st (first) Edition
- (Spirit of Fire: Life and Vision of Teilhard De Chardin ) Author: Ursula King Feb-1998
- Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Teilhard De Chardin by King, Ursula (1998) Paperback
- Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Teilhard De Chardin
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Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages
Membership
Fellow Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts (life). Member American Academy Religion.
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Married Anthony Douglas King, September 7, 1963. Children: Frances, Karen, Anna, Dominique Nina.
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British
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1963 - 1965
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1971 - 1979
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1989 - 2002
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S.A. Cook Bye fellow Newnham College, Cambridge, England, 1976-1977. Scholar Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bonn, Germany, 1958-1963. Grantee French Government, 1960-1963. Recipient Gold medal Indian Philosophical Congress, Delhi, 1969.S.A. Cook Bye fellow Newnham College, Cambridge, England, 1976-1977. Scholar Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bonn, Germany, 1958-1963. Grantee French Government, 1960-1963.
Recipient Gold medal Indian Philosophical Congress, Delhi, 1969.