Category: Via Positiva

Thomas Merton is very attuned to the Via Positiva.  Consider this passage from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander: “I stepped out of the north wing

Meister Eckhart is thoroughly marinated in the Via Positiva (but immersed in the other three paths as well).  A brief example of his VP teachings

We are talking about the Four Paths and about how we begin our spiritual lives—and renew them—with the Via Positiva–which is so often dismissed or

Science has a profound role to play in awakening us anew to the Via Positiva today.  (Of course it plays a primary role in the

During the industrial revolution the captains of industry complained about “sloth,” as the deadly sin of acedia was translated at that time.  They considered anyone

Reading Hildegard of Bingen’s term “Original Wisdom” or Julian of Norwich’s “Original Goodness,” one is reminded of “Original Blessing” that a number of years back

We continue to explore just a few of the numerous passages in the Scriptures that sing of the Via Positiva.  Consider the following: “It was

The Scriptures abound with news of the Via Positiva! Just a few examples from the Hebrew Bible follow:  “God saw everything that God had made,

Howard Thurman, the spiritual elder and genius behind the civil rights movement, was a profound mystic as well as a prophet.  From his childhood days,