David Lewin is Lecturer in Education at Strathclyde University. His recent publications include articles in the Journal of Philosophy of Education, Ethics and Education, and the European Journal of Special Educational Needs. He is co-editor of New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education (Bloomsbury, 2014) and has recently published a monograph for Routledge entitled Educational Philosophy for a Post-Secular Age

Simon D. Podmore is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University and co-convenor, with Louise Nelstrop, of the Mystical Theology Network. He is author of Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (Indiana University Press, 2011) and Struggling With God: Kierkegaard and the Temptation of Spiritual Trial (James Clarke & Co., 2013). He is currently writing a monograph entitled Dark Night of the Holy, exploring a theological account of the Negative Numinous in Mystical Theology.

Duane Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Department at Liverpool Hope University. He is editor of the journal Medieval Mystical Theology, a trustee of the Eckhart Society, and a co-facilitator of the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion. He is the author of the monograph The Linguistic Christ, and is to soon publish a new monograph titled Language and Being: Heidegger's Linguistics.

Introduction: Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy: Interchange in the Wake of God

Part 1: Receiving Mystical Tradition in Post/Modernity

1 Learning Presence: The Mystical Text as Intimate Hyper-communication across time

Oliver Davies

2 God of Luria, Hegel, Schelling: The Divine Contraction and the Modern Metaphysics of Finitude

Agata Bielik-Robson

3 From Text to Presence: Ricoeur and Medieval Monastic Biblical Contemplation

Joseph Milne

Part 2: Apophasis and Continental Philosophy

4 Different Deserts: Deconstructionism and Dionysian Apophaticism

Maria Exall

5 The Apophatic Dimension of Revelation

Miroslav Griško

6 Augustine, Dionysius and Jean-Luc Marion

Rico Monge

Part 3: Revisiting Eckhart through Heidegger

7 The Role of Mysticism in the Formation of Heidegger's Phenomenology

George Pattison

8 Eckhart's Why and Heidegger's What: Beyond Subjectivistic Thought to Groundless Ground

Duane Williams

9 Meister Eckhart's Speculative Grammar: a Foreshadowing of Heidegger's Der Satz vom Grund?

Christopher M. Wojtulewicz

10 Pay Attention! Exploring Contemplative Pedagogies between Eckhart and Heidegger

David Lewin

Part 4: Re-readings and New Boundaries

11 Mysterium Secretum et Silentoisum: Praying the Apophatic Self

Simon D. Podmore

12 Becoming Mystic, Becoming Monster: The Logic of the Infinite in Kierkegaard, Cusa, and Deleuze

Steven Shakespeare

13 Non-philosophical Immanence, or Immanence without S