Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill (December 6, 1875 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England; † 15 June 1941 in London) was an Anglo Catholic mystic and theologian. The Anglican Church of England and the Episcopalian Church of the USA they worship in their holy calendars under the date of 15 June. Underhill kept her Single name even after marriage with Hubert Stuart Moore in 1907.

Life and meaning

Evelyn Underhill remained their life-long Anglican denomination and church membership faithful ( High Church ). However, in their research on mysticism they went with the same interest and non-Christian or Protestant forms of mysticism after. They treated there - well differentiated - History, systematics and practice of mysticism and edited a very similar corpus of sources such as Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, whose name she does not mention. In addition, but she finds about Friedrich von Hügel and Rudolf Eucken to a scientific work and design manner. In the years 1929-1932 she was the theological editor for the British newspaper, The Spectator.

Friedrich Heiler she stood next to Baron Hill and Albrecht Ritschl, Wilhelm Herrmann, Adolf von Harnack. The Encyclopedia Britannica (1987 ) pays tribute to their development: " By 1940 she had supplemented her Earlier and more diffuse mystical attitudes with a Greater understanding and acceptance of institutional and sacramental elements in traditional Christianity, and she had come to center her theology on an experience of Christian. "

Work

• Mysticism. 1911th 2nd Edition 1930 E- text German. Mysticism. A study of nature and development of the religious consciousness in man. With an afterword by Friedrich Heiler. 1928
• Immanence. 1913 ( poems)
• The Mystics of the Church. London 1926.