Andrew Prevot’s lecture, held on April 13, 2018, explored the reception of Christian mysticism in contemporary theology and philosophy. He argued that certain postmodern ethical discourses about the self’s experience of being flesh and the self’s porosity to the other could be traced back to mystical sources in the Christian tradition. Yet what was sometimes lost in these postmodern transpositions of the mystical was a clear sense of the Christian doctrine of grace, which teaches that the mystical is not merely a characteristic of human subjectivity and relationality but an all-absorbing gift of union with God. Prevot reflected on why the memory of this gift is important for Christian life today.
Title: “The Grace of Divine Union”
About our guest:
Dr. Andrew Prevot is an associate professor of theology at Boston College. He recently published his first book, Thinking Prayer (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), which won the College Theology Society’s Best Book in Theology Award for 2015. (https://politicaltheology.com/author/andrewprevot/)
