Contemplating Christ
The Gospels and the Interior Life
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The incarnation has made mystics of us all. What if we read the gospels as if that were true? In his book Contemplating Christ,Vincent Pizzuto offers an exploration of the interior life for modern contemplatives that is as beautiful as it is compelling. With an emphasis on the gospels and Christian mystical tradition, his book explores ancient themes in new and surprising ways. Drawing on his rich experience as an academic and priest, Pizzuto gradually unfolds the Christian mystery of deification to which the whole of biblical revelation and the Christian contemplative life are ordered: through the incarnation, we have all been made “other Christs” in the world.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xiii
Chapter One
Words Made Flesh: Scripture and the Interior Life 1
Chapter Two
O! Happy Fault: Salvation History and the Interior Life 35
Chapter Three
Exile Interrupted: Incarnation and the Interior Life 65
Chapter Four
We Are Legion: Asceticism and the Interior Life 93
Chapter Five
Becoming Prayer: Discipleship and the Interior Life 136
Appendix
Mum’s the Word: The Origins of Christian Mysticism 175
Glossary 183
Notes 189
Index 207