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Miss Underhill (Mrs. Hubert Stuart Moore) taught that the life of contemplative
prayer is not just for monks and nuns, but can be the life of any Christian
who is willing to undertake it. She also taught that modern psychological
theory, far from being a threat to contemplation, can fruitfully be used
to enhance it. In her later years, she spent a great deal of time as a
lecturer and retreat director. She died on June 15, 1941. |
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The Evelyn Underhill Association website introduces her life and work. It has links to purchase her books,
some of which are fully on line. |
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Mysticism - a study in the nature and development of spiritual consciousness. Her most known work. (1911) written after her conversion to Catholicism. ... from the preface to the 12th ed.: "(the study of mysticism) is
now more and more generally accepted by theologians, philosophers and psychologists,
as representing in its intensive form the essential religious experience
of man. " |
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"Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It
makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which
we always tend to forget."
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"O God, Origin, Sustainer, and End of all your creatures: Grant That
your Church, taught by your servant Evelyn Underhill, guarded evermore
by your power, and guided by your Spirit into the light of truth, may continually
offer to you all glory and thanksgiving, and attain with your saints to
the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have promised us by our
Savior Jesus Christ; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns,
one God, now and for ever. Psalm 96:7-13 or 37:3-6,32-33, Wisdom 7:24--8:1,
John 4:19-24"
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"I come in the little things, saith the Lord"
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