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Retraçant les grandes étapes de l’histoire du mysticisme chrétien, Martin Henry* montre que le christianisme n’est ni hostile ni étranger au mysticisme, mais qu’il ne saurait s’épuiser en lui : le mysticisme chrétien se caractérise par sa conscience singulière d’une distance non résorbable entre l’histoire et la parousie, notre condition présente et notre accomplissement final.

Recounting the major stages of Christian mysticism throughout history, Martin Henry shows that Christianity is neither hostile nor alien to mysticism; nor it is reducible to it. Christian mysticism is characterised by its awareness of a gap that cannot be filled between history and Second Coming, that is to say our present condition and our fulfilment.