{"product_id":"christianity-as-mystical-fact-book-rudolf-steiner-9780880104364","title":"Christianity as Mystical Fact","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritten 1902 (CW 8)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Because of his sense of the interconnectedness of the spiritual world with nature, art, medicine, and all the rest of life, Rudolf Steiner was a profound polymath. In his seminal study \u003ci\u003eChristianity as Mystical Fact\u003c\/i\u003e he turned his esoteric genius to interpreting the Christ event as the turning point in the world's spiritual history--an incarnation whose significance he saw transcending all religions.\" --\u003cb\u003eBishop Frederick H. Borsch, \u003c\/b\u003e professor of New Testament and chair of Anglican Studies, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e\"As simultaneously mysticism and fact, Christianity is a breakthrough in the historical development of humanity for which the mysteries, with the results that they brought about, form a prior evolutionary stage.\" --\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the fall and winter of 1901-1902, Steiner gave a series of lectures called \"Christianity As Mystical Fact\" to members of the Theosophical Society. The lectures were rewritten and issued as a book later that year. They mark a watershed in the development of Western esotericism. Steiner wrote of the idea behind his book: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The title \u003ci\u003eChristianity As Mystical Fact\u003c\/i\u003e was one I gave to this work eight years ago, when I gathered together the content of lectures given in 1902. It was meant to indicate the special approach adopted in the book. Its theme is not just the mystical side of Christianity in a historical presentation. It was meant to show, from the standpoint of a mystical awareness, how Christianity came into being. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBehind this was the idea that spiritual happenings were factors in the emergence of Christianity, which could only be observed from such a point of view. It is for the book itself to demonstrate that, by \"mystical,\" I do not in any way imply a vague intuition rather than strict scientific argument. In many circles, mysticism is understood as just that, and therefore it is distinguished from the concerns of all 'genuine' science. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this book, however, I use the term to mean a 'presentation of spiritual reality'--a reality accessible only to a knowledge drawn from the sources of spiritual life itself. Anyone who denies the possibility of such knowledge in principle will find its contents hard to comprehend; any reader who accepts the idea that mysticism may coexist with the clarity of the natural sciences, may acknowledge that the mystical aspect of Christianity must be described mystically.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fundamental book, in Steiner's own development, in that of Western esotericism, and for our understanding of the Christ event. Readers will find the evolutionary development from the ancient Mysteries through the great Greek philosophers to the events portrayed in the Gospels. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded are an informative introduction and annotated notes by Andrew Welburn and an afterword by Michael Debus, a priest of the Christian Community, who summarizes the book and places it in context. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Introduction by Christopher Bamford\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Translator's Preface by Andrew Welburn\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Mysteries and Mysteriosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Mysteries and Pre-Socratic Philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Platonic Mysteries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Myth and Mysteriosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Egyptian and Other Eastern Mysteries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Evidence of the Gospels\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The \"Miracle\" of Lazarus\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Apocalypse of John\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Jesus in His Historical Setting\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Essence of Christianity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Christian and Pagan Wisdom\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Augustine and the Church\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Original Prefaces and Additional Materials\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Afterword by Michael Debus\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Translator's Notes\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/b\u003e edition contains a new introduction, a chronology of Rudolf Steiner's life, and an index. \u003cb\u003eGerman edition: \u003c\/b\u003e Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertum \u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49892138549521,"sku":"CIN0880104368G","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50061380026641,"sku":"GOR003131742","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51797282685201,"sku":"CIN0880104368VG","price":9.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52987675672849,"sku":"GOR005435879","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53215633047825,"sku":"NIN9780880104364","price":23.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0880104368.jpg?v=1751139767","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/christianity-as-mystical-fact-book-rudolf-steiner-9780880104364","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}