Awake to God attempts to bring together the different themes of self emptying and participation which postmodern theologians have brought back into the conversation about God. It relates these themes to the Christian tradition and combines then with the insights of some of the great thinkers of the past-Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Thomas Traherne, Etty Hillesum and Paul Celan-in order to suggest a style of being and seeing for the contemporary Christian.... An answer to the question 'How can I be a Christian?'

The mystical way has largely been lost as an option within the mainstream life of the Church. We have turned the focus of our attention away from the immense reality of God. We have settled, perhaps, for something rather more comfortable. In this ground-breaking and passionate book, Melvyn Matthews argues that believers today desperately need to retrieve a spiritual life of great depth in order to remain faithful in a world that contains much moral and social disintegration. Mysticism, often wrongly regarded as a private and personal experience limited to the few, is a way of returning to the...