CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
Reading edition
The frontispiece consists of a reduced facsimile, in photogravure, of a lithograph by F. Scotto, entitled “Ven. Batta. Vernazza,” which was printed and owned by the firm of Gervasoni, and which appeared in the large 4to volume, Ritratti, ed Elogi di Liguri Illustri, with the text printed by Ponthenier, all in Genoa. This book was published there, in monthly parts, from 1823 to 1830. Scotto’s highly characteristic lithograph no doubt reproduces an authentic likeness; and probably the original portrait was, in the first instance, owned by the Canonesses of S. Maria delle Grazie, Battista’s own convent in Genoa. The picture now in the possession of the Nuns of S. Maria in Passione, the successors of those Canonesses, is of a quite conventional, secondary type.
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Part III.—CRITICAL
Chapter IX.—Psycho-physical and Temperamental Questions3-61
Introductory3-9
I.Catherine’s Third Period, 1497-15109-13
II.Conclusions concerning Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition during this Last Period14-21
III.Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition, its Likeness and Unlikeness to Hysteria22-27
IV.First Period of Catherine’s Life, 1447-1477, in its Three Stages28-32
V.The Second, Great Middle Period of Catherine’s Life, 1477-149932-40
VI.Three Rules which seem to govern the Relations between Psycho-physical Peculiarities and Sanctity in general40-47
VII.Perennial Freshness of the Great Mystics’ Main Spiritual Test, in Contradistinction to their Secondary, Psychological Contention. Two Special Difficulties47-61
Chapter X.—The Main Literary Sources of Catherine’s Conceptions62-110
Introductory62, 63
I.The Pauline Writings: the Two Sources of their Pre-Conversion Assumptions; Catherine’s Preponderant Attitude towards each Position63-79
II.The Joannine Writings79-90
III.The Areopagite Writings90-101
IV.Jacopone da Todi’s “Lode”102-110
V.Points common to all Five Minds; and Catherine’s Main Difference from her Four Predecessors110
Chapter XI.—Catherine’s Less Ultimate This-World Doctrines111-181
Introductory111, 112
I.Interpretative Religion112-121
II.Dualistic Attitude towards the Body121-129
III.Quietude and Passivity. Points in this Tendency to be considered here129-152
IV.Pure Love, or Disinterested Religion: its Distinction from Quietism152-181
Chapter XII.—The After-Life Problems and Doctrines182-258
I.The Chief Present-day Problems, Perplexities, and Requirements with Regard to the After-Life in General182-199
II.Catherine’s General After-Life Conceptions199-218
III.Catherine and Eternal Punishment218-230
IV.Catherine and Purgatory230-246
V.Catherine and Heaven—Three Perplexities to be considered246-258
Chapter XIII.—The First Three Ultimate Questions259-308
I.The Relations between Morality and Mysticism, Philosophy and Religion259-275
II.Mysticism and the Limits of Human Knowledge and Experience275-290
III.Mysticism and the Question of Evil290-308
Chapter XIV.—The Two Final Problems: Mysticism And Pantheism, the Immanence of God, And Spiritual Personality, Human and Divine309-340
Introductory309, 310
I.Relations between the General and the Particular, God and Individual Things, according to Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists, and the Medieval Strict Realists310-319
II.Relations between God and the Human Soul319-325
III.Mysticism and Pantheism: their Differences and Points of Likeness325-335
IV.The Divine Immanence; Spiritual Personality336-340
Chapter XV.—Summing-up of the Whole Book. Back Through Asceticism, Social Religion, and the Scientific Habit of Mind, to the Mystical Element of Religion341-396
I.Asceticism and Mysticism341-351
II.Social Religion and Mysticism351-366
III.The Scientific Habit and Mysticism367-386
IV.Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of the Whole Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the Almost Inevitable Mutual Hostility, of the Three Great Forces of the Soul and of the Three Corresponding Elements of Religion387-396
Index397