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Page INTRODUCTION ix I. EARLY YEARS AND EDUCATION 1 II. AS A SECULAR PRIEST IN BRUSSELS 6 III. FALSE MYSTICS 10 IV. THE HERMITAGE OF GROENENDAEL 17 V. THE CANONS REGULAR OF GROENENDAEL 25 VI. PRIOR OF GROENENDAEL 33 VII. RUYSBROECK'S TREE 43 VIII. A DIRECTOR OF SOULS 47 IX. RU...
The inconveniences just noted, together with the continual increase in their numbers, gave point and force to a strong remonstrance addressed to Francis van Coudenberg and his B...
4. Part 4This is perhaps the most discursive of Ruysbroeck's works, and in that sense the most difficult to follow, because of the number and length of the digressions. For instance, whe...
3. Part 3On another point also, like the trained and exact theologian he was, Gerard Groote wished to correct his friend. He insisted that the boundless confidence which Ruysbroeck expre...
1. Part 1Page INTRODUCTION ix I. EARLY YEARS AND EDUCATION 1 II. AS A SECULAR PRIEST IN BRUSSELS 6 III. FALSE MYSTICS 10 IV. THE HERMITAGE OF GROENENDAEL 17 V. THE CANONS REGULAR OF GROE...
5. Part 5And here we may note that while it is customary with some to speak of Ruysbroeck as illiterate, this term must be taken in a strictly limited sense. Possibly, he could not have...