Mystical theology is the branch of theology in the Christian tradition that deals with divine encounter and the self-communication of God with the faithful; such as to explain mystical practices and s
Icon of the Transfiguration
Four saints, doctors of the Church
Mysticism encompasses religious traditions of human transformation aided by various practices and religious experiences. Popularly, mysticism is used synonymously with mystical experience, a neologism
Liber Divinorum Operum, or the Universal Man of St. Hildegard of Bingen, 1185 (13th-century copy)
The Appearance of the Holy Spirit before Saint Teresa of Ávila, Peter Paul Rubens
A Buryat shaman performing a ritual on Olkhon Island
Life of Francis of Assisi by José Benlliure y Gil