Week 1 What is Christian Mysticism

This is week one of our new class on Christian Mysticism. We are using a book by Jason M. Baxter called "Introduction to Christian Mysticism and this information is taken from the Introduction.
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[@BibleAlivePresentations]

What a beautiful class! Thank you Professor Joe!!

[@MrJosephholbrook]

Ha ha! You're very welcome! 👋

[@howaboutataste]

It's interesting to see this come up in my feed. I have been interested in learning about Christian mysticism last few years. Several years ago I became an atheist, not by choice, but because I had devoted myself to truth and realized that it just wasn't true. That was rough. Since then, I've found closure and comfort learning more about the Bible. All those things Dr. Holbrook "doesn't know" about why scripture says this here and that there, why things are worded the way they are, and more significantly, why it isn't worded in a way conducive to how christians construe it to mean. So the knowledge and familiarity I gained over the twenty-five years I was I Christian doesn't seem such a waste. I understand how this religion came about so much better, and can see it isn't malicious lies. See, the church I was baptized in at the age of ten, I am told was 'planted' by Joseph Holbrook. Was never very clear on what that involvement really entailed. But I've heard Mr Holbrook speak many times and have known people with close ties to him. Mystic beliefs and practices lay at the very origins of Christianity.

[@MrJosephholbrook]

so true. I also when through my dark period about Christian 'certainty' and Biblicism. Christian mysticism helped me in my way back to faith with mystery