George Matheson and Mysticism—A Biographical Study

Download or read book George Matheson and Mysticism—A Biographical Study written by Scott S. McKenna and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study on the life and mystical thought of George Matheson. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Matheson was a Church of Scotland minister at Innellan on the west coast of Scotland. Matheson was of Highland descent and blind from the age of eighteen. His spiritual journey included a distressing experience of atheism, the attraction of Hegelian idealism, and through the practice of silence and meditation on Scripture, he wrote of the Eternal through mystical union. Matheson has much to offer those interested in the inner life, not least Christians in the Presbyterian tradition.