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Could there be a Mystical Core of Religion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Grace M. Jantzen
Grace M. Jantzen
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King's College, London
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An identical consciousness of close communion with God is obtained by the non-sacramental Quaker in his silence and by the sacramental Catholic in the Eucharist. The Christian contemplative's sense of personal intercourse with the divine as manifest in the incarnate Christ is hard to distinguish from that of the Hindu Vaishnavite, when we have allowed for the different constituents of his apperceiving mass.

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Religious Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 59 - 71
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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