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34. Quoted in Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam, p.151.

35. Quoted in Arberry, Sufism, p.6o. 36. Koran 2:32.

37. Hiqmat al-Ishraq, quoted in Henri Corbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, From Mazdean Iran to s.h.i.+te Iran (trans. Nancy Pearson), (London, 1990), pp. 168-9.

38. Mircea Eliade, Shamamism, p.9 508.

39. J.P. Sartre, The Psychology of the Imagination (London, 1972), pa.s.sim.

40. Futuhat alMakkiyah II, 326, quoted in Henri Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of lbm Arabi (trans. Ralph Manheim), (London, 1970), p.330.

41. The Diwan, Interpretation of Ardent Desires, in ibid. p.138.

42. La Vita Nuova (trans. Barbara Reynolds), (Harmondsworth, 1969), pp.29-30.

43. Purgatory xvii, 13-18 (trans. Barbara Reynolds), (Harmondsworth, 1969), p. 196.

44. William Chittick, 'Ibn al-Arabi and His School' in Sayyed Hossein Nasr (ed.) Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations (New York and London, 1991), p.6i.

45. Koran 18:69.

46. Quoted in Henri Corbin, Creative Imagination in Ibn al-Arabi, p.m.

47. Chittick, 'Ibn Arabi and His School' in Nasr (ed.) Islamic Spirituality, p-58.

48. Majid Fakhry, A History of Islamic Philosophy (New York and London, 1970), p.282.

49. R. A. Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam, p. 105.

50. R. A. Nicholson, (ed.) Eastern Poetry and Prose (Cambridge, 1922), p.i48.

51. Masnawi, I, i, quoted in Hodgson, The Venture of Islam, II, p.250.

52. Quoted in This Longing, Teaching Stories and Selected Letters of Rumi (trans, and ed. Coleman Banks and John Moyne), (Putney, 1988), p.20.

53. 'Song of Unity' quoted in Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 2nd edn., (London, 1955), p.108.

54. Ibid, p.11.

55. In Gershom Scholem (ed. and trans.) The Zohar, The Book of Splendour (New York, 1949), p.27.

56. Ibid.

57. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, p.i36.

58. Ibid. p. 142.

59. Quoted in J.C. Clark, Meister Eckhart, An Introduction to the Study of his Works with an Anthology of his Sermons (London, 1957), p.28.

60. Simon Tugwell, 'Dominican Spirituality' in Louis Dupre and Don. E. Saliers (eds.) Christian Spirituality III (New York and London, 1989), p.28.

61. Quoted in Clark, Meister Eckhart, p-40.

62. Sermon, 'Qui Audit Me Non Confundetur' in R.B. Blakeney (trans.) Meister Eckhart, A New Translation (New York, 1957), p.2O4.

63. Ibid, p.288.

64. 'On Detachment' in Edmund Coledge and Bernard McGinn (eds. and trans.) Meister Eckhart, the Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defence (London, 1981), p.87.

65. Theophanes, PG. 9320. (My italics.) 66. Homily, 16.

67. Triads 1.3.47.

8 - A G.o.d for Reformers 1. Majma 'at al-Rasail, quoted in Majid Fakhry, A History of Islamic Philosophy (New York and London, 1970), p.351.

2. Marshall G.S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilization, 3 Vols, (Chicago, 1974), II, pp-334-360.

3. Kitab al hikmat al-ars.h.i.+ya, quoted in Henri Corbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, From Mazdean Iran to s.h.i.+te Iran (trans. Nancy Pearson), (London, 1990), p.166.

4. Quoted in M. S. Raschid, Iqbal's Concept of G.o.d (London, 1981), pp. 103-4.

5. Quoted in Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 2nd edn. (London, 1955), p.253.

6. Ibid. p. 271; for Lurianic Kabbalah see also Scholem, The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays in Jewish Spirituality (New York, 1971), pp.43-48; R. J. Zwi Weblosky, 'The Safed Revival and its Aftermath' in Arthur Green (ed.) Jewish Spirituality 2 Vols. (London, 1986, 1988), II; Jacob Katz, 'Halakah and Kabbalah as Competing Disciplines of Study' in ibid.; Laurence Fine, 'The Contemplative Practice of Yehudim in Lurianic Kabbalah' in ibid; Louis Jacobs, 'The Uplifting of the Sparks in later Jewish Mysticism' in ibid.

7. The Mountain of Contemplation, 4.

8. Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (trans. Leo Sherley Poole), (Harmondsworth, 1953), I, i, p.27.

9. Richard Kieckhafer, 'Major Currents in Late Medieval Devotion' in Jill Raitt (ed.) Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation (New York and London, 1989), p.87-8.

10. Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (trans. Clifton Wolters) (London, 1981), 15, pp.87-8.

11. Enconium Sancti Tomae Aquinatis quoted in William J. Bouwsme, The Spirituality of Renaissance Humanism' in Raitt, Christian Spirituality, p.244.

12. Letter to his brother Gherado, December 2, 1348 in David Thompson (ed.), Petrarch, a Humanist among Princes: An Anthology of Petrarch's Letters and Translations from His Works (New York, 1971), P.90.

13. Quoted in Charles Trinkaus, The Poet as Philosopher: Petrarch and the Formation of Renaissance Consciousness (New Haven, 1979), p.87.

14. Of Learned Ignorance, 1.22.

15. On Possibility and Being in G.o.d, 17.5.

16. Norman Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons (London, 1976).

17. Quoted in Alister E. McGrath, Reformation Thought, An Introduction (Oxford and New York, 1988), p.73.

18. Commentary on Psalm 90.3.

19. Commentary on Galatians 3.19.

20. Quoted in McGrath, Reformation Thought, p.74.

21. I Corinthians 1.25.

22. Heidelberg Disputation, 21.

23. Ibid. 19-20.

24. Ibid.

25. Quoted in Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, A History of the Development of Dogma 5 Vols, IV, Reformation of Church and Dogma (Chicago and London, 1984), p.156.

26. Commentary on Galatians 2.16.

27. Ethical Orations 5 28. Small Catechism 2.4. Quoted in Pelikan, Reformation of Church, p.i6i. (My italics.) 29. Alastair E. McGrath, A Life of John Calvin, A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture (Oxford, 1990) p.7.

30. Quoted in McGrath, ibid, p.251.

31. Inst.i.tutes of the Christians Religion, I, xiii, 2.

32. Quoted in Pelikan, Reformation of Church, p-327.

33. Zinzendorf quoted in ibid, p.326.

34. Quoted in McGrath, Reformation Thought, p.87.

35. McGrath, A Life of Calvin, p.90.

36. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (ed. Martine E. Marty) (New York and Harmondsworth, 1982), pp. 127-85.

37. John Bossy, Christianity in the West 1400-1700 (Oxford and New York, 1985), p.96.

38. McGrath, A Life of Calvin, pp.209-245.

39. R.C. Lovelace, 'Puritan Spirituality: the Search for a Rightly Reformed Church' in Louis Dupre and Don E. Saliers (eds.) Christian Spirituality: Post Reformation and Modern (New York and London, 1989) p.313.

40. The Spiritual Exercises 230.

41. Quoted in Hugo Rahner SJ, Ignatius the Theologian (trans. Michael Barry) (London, 1968), p.23.

42. Quoted in Pelikan, The Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture (Since 1700) (Chicago and London, 1989), p-39- 43. Lucien Febvre, The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century, the Religion of Rabelais (trans. Beatrice Gottlieb) (Cambridge Ma.s.s., and London, 1982) p.351.

44. Ibid, pp-355-6.

45. Quoted in J.C. Davis, Fear, Myth and History, the Ranters and the Historians (Cambridge, 1986), p. 114.

46. McGrath, A Life of John Calvin, p. 131.

47. Quoted in Robert S. Westman, The Copernicans and the Churches' in David C. Lindberg and Ronald E. Numbers (eds.), G.o.d and Nature; Historical Essays in the Encounter Between Christianity and Science (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1986), p.87.

48. Psalm 93:1; Ecclesiastici 1:5; Psalm 104:19.

49. William R. Shea, 'Galileo and the Church' in Lindberg and Numbers (eds.), G.o.d and Nature, p. 125.

9 - Enlightenment 1. Text taken from Blaise Pascal, Pensees (trans, and ed. A. J. Krailsheimer) (London, 1966), P-3O9- 2. Pensees, 919.

3. Ibid. 198.

4. Ibid. 418.

5. Ibid. 919.

6. Ibid. 418.

7. Romans 1.19-20.

8. Rene Descartes, A Discourse on Method etc (trans. J. Veitch) (London, 1912), 2.6.19.

9. Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry and Metereology (trans. Paul J. Olscamp) (Indianapolis, 1965), p.263.

10. Ibid. p.36i.

11. Quoted in A. R. Hall and L. Tilling (eds.) The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, 3 Vols (Cambridge, 1959-77), December 10, 1692, III, PP.234-5.

12. January 17, 1693 in ibid. p.24O.

13. Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (trans. Andrew Motte, ed. Florian Cajavi) (Berkeley, 1934), pp.344-6.

14. 'Corruptions of Scripture' quoted in Richard S. Westfall, 'The Rise of Science and Decline of Orthodox Christianity. A Study of Kepler, Descartes and Newton' in David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds.) G.o.d and Nature; Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1986), p. 231.

15. Ibid. pp.231-2.

16. Quoted in Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, A History of the Development of Doctrine 5 Vols, V Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture (Since 1700) (Chicago and London, 1989), p.66.

17. Ibid. p.105.

18. Ibid, p.101.

19. Ibid. p. 103.

20. Paradise Lost, Book III, Lines 113-119, 124-128.

21. Franqois-Marie de Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary (trans. Theodore Besterman) (London, 1972), p.357.

22. Ibid. p.57.

23. Quoted in Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (London, 1987), p.290.