Frans Maas. Spirituality as Insight: Mystical Texts and Theological Reflections.

Abstract

The Fiery Arrow Collection, produced under the auspices of the Titus Brandsma Institute at the Catholic Institute of Nijmegen and the Carmelite Order, aims to make the ‘treasures of the spiritual tradition’ accessible to the contemporary reader, especially to those who  ‘in a great variety of ways are in search of interior life and the fire of love’. In this respect, the latest addition to the series by Frans Maas, a Professor at Nijmegen, does not disappoint. Maas has taken the ‘spiritual treasures’ from five writers in the tradition and relates them to contemporary academic debate on the nature of mysticism, as well as the wider ‘thirst for spirituality’ within contemporary society.