Mysticism & Cognition: The Cognitive Development of John of the Cross as Revealed in his Works

This collection of papers presents views on both objective science and religious belief systems, and provides a grounding in both disciplines and how they relate to one another. What is time? , who is God? , does time have a beginning? are some of the questions asked to discussed. Other topics include temporal and time irreversibility, predestination, metaphysics and cosmology. Contributors are scholars from universities in the United States, Switzerland, Poland, the United Kingdom and Denmark, representing such diverse fields as logics, physics, philosophy and theology. One contributor, Anidita Niyogi Balslev, who presents Indian views in a context of cross-cultural exchange, sums up the thrust of this collection when she writes, an increasing academic involvement with fundamental themes such as time and creation is likely to have significant impact on the meeting of world-religions, perhaps far beyond the confines of the academic scene. It might very well create new avenues of thinking that could benefit all those who find themselves at the cross-road of cultures . Other contributors include Andre Mercier: God, world and time ; Lawrence Fagg: Ideas of time and cosmic origin ; Thomas E. Phipps Jr.: Time irreversibility ; Per F.V. Hasle: The problem of predestination . and Mogens Wegener: Towards a new metaphysics of time and creation . The book should appeal to those seeking to explore the connections between modern scientific thought and theology.