“The Book That Changed My Life”

A Book for All Time: Why Evelyn Underhill’s Mysticism Still Matters

Evelyn Underhill

For pretty much my entire adult life, if anyone would ask me who my favorite authors are, without hesitation I would say Evelyn Underhill and Thomas Merton. To me, the work of Evelyn Underhill represents the call for the revival of mysticism in our time, while Merton anchored the call to mysticism in the urgent political and social concerns that shape life in America over the last fifty years or so. As a woman...