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Select Bibliography of Christian Mystical Texts up to around 1750

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

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Patricia Z. Beckman
Amy Hollywood
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Harvard Divinity School
Patricia Z. Beckman
Affiliation:
St Olaf College, Minnesota
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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism , pp. 351 - 356
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