Five Key Words for Understanding Christian Mysticism

So often people will say to me, “I just don’t know what Christian mysticism is!” Which is perfectly understandable, since not only is mysticism related to mystery, but also the added confusion that the word gets used in so many different ways by different people.

Evelyn Underhill alluded to this, over a century ago, in her book Practical Mysticism:

The genuine inquirer will find before long a number of self-appointed apostles who are eager to answer his question in many strange and inconsistent ...