Professor Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School, Chicago University, discusses the idea of the nothingness of God in both Jewish and Christian Mysticism. The lecture was a keynote given at the Mystical Theology Network Conference: ‘Mysticism in Comparative Perspectives’ (Glasgow, December 2016).
Bernard McGinn (born August 19, 1937) is an American Roman Catholic theologian, religious historian, and scholar of spirituality. A specialist in Medieval mysticism, McGinn is widely regarded as the most preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition. He is best known for his comprehensive series on mysticism, The Presence of God.
From 1988 to 2015, McGinn was editor-in-chief of the Paulist Press Classics of Western Spirituality Series; he also served as a member of the editorial boards of Cistercian Publications, and other publications. In 2003, he co-wrote Early Christian Mystics: The Divine Vision of the Spiritual Masters with his wife, psychotherapist Pat McGinn. McGinn is a past-president of the American Society of Church History and the American Catholic Historical Association.
Although he assumed emeritus status in 2003, he has continued publishing scholarly work since that time. In 2005 he participated in a symposium on “Spiritual Information”, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 2015, he gave the Costan Lecture at Georgetown University. In June of that same year, he spoke on Teresa of Avila at the “Agricola Seminar” of the University of Groningen. In 2017, McGinn spoke on John of the Cross for the Annual Candlemas Lecture at Boston College. (Wikipedia)
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