Author: Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von [1852-1925]
Title: The Mystical Element of Religion as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her Friends, by Baron Friedrich von Hügel.
Description: London / New York, J.M. Dent, 1923. Second edition, orig.cloth. 22x15cm, (505)+(428)pp, TWO VOLUMES. Some pencil underlining to first 75 pages of vol. I. Name inked on flyleaf. Some foxing.. Frontispiece.. Rubbed. Spine darkened. Some page-edge foxing. Good. ¶ Contents: [Vol. I: Introduction & Biographies; xxxix,466 pp]: The Three Chief Forces of Western Civilization; The Three Elements of Religion; Biographical: Catherine Fiesca Adorna's Life, Up to her Conversion; & the Chief Peculiarities Predominant Throughout her Convent Years; Catherine's Life from 1473 to 1506; & Its Main Changes & Growth; Catherine's Last Four Years, 1506 - 1510; Sketch of her Character, Doctrine & Spirit; Catherine' s Doctrine; Catherine's Remains & Cultus; The Fate of her Two Priest Friends & of her Domestics; & the Remaining History of Ettore Vernazza; Battista Vernazza's Life; Conclusion to Volume I: Wherein Lies the Secret of Spiritual Persuasiveness; Appendix to Part II: Chronological Account & Critical Analysis of the Materials for the Re-Constitution of Saint Catherine's Life & Teaching; [Volume II: Critical Studies; vi, 422pp]: Critical: Psycho-Physical & Tempermental Questions; The Main Literary Sources of Catherine's Conceptions; Catherine's Less Ultimate This-World Doctrines; The After-Life Problems & Doctrines; The First Three Ultimate Questions; The Two Final Problems: Mysticism & Pantheism. The Immanence of God, & Spiritual Personality; Human & Divine; Summing-Up of the Whole Book;Back through Asceticism; Social Religion; & the Scientific Habit of Mind, to the Mystical Element of Religion.

Keywords: Comparative Religion, Philosophy, History of Religion, Catherine of Genoa, Christian Saints, Christianity Saint, Mystical Theology, Mysticism, Battista Vernazza