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Bernard McGinn

Author of Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination With Evil

Includes the names: Bernard McGinn, Bernard Mcginn, Bernard MacGinn, Bernard A. McGinn, Professor Bernard McGinn

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Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination With Evil 198 copies, 1 review
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism (Modern Library Classics) (Editor) 126 copies, 4 reviews
The Foundations of Mysticism (Presence of God: a History of Western… 117 copies
Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century (Editor) 97 copies
Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality) 84 copies
The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great Through the 12 Century (The… 73 copies
The Flowering of Mysticism (Presence of God: a History of Western… 66 copies
Henry Suso: The Exemplar, With Two German Sermons (Classics of Western… 50 copies
The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing… 41 copies
Visions of the End 40 copies
Early Christian Mystics: The Divine Vision of the Spirtual Masters 38 copies
The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany (The Presence of God) 30 copies
Doctors Of The Church: Thirty-Three Men and Women Who Shaped Christianity 29 copies
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild… 25 copies

Continuum History of Apocalypticism 24 copies, 1 review

The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Editor) 23 copies

The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism: Apocalypticism in Western History and… 11 copies

The Golden Chain: A Study in the Theological Anthropology of Isaac of… 6 copies

Eriugena: East and West : Papers of the Eighth International Colloquium of… 5 copies

Three treatises on man : a Cistercian anthropology 4 copies

The Calabrian Abbott: Joachim of Fiore in the History of Western Thought 4 copies

Presence of God : History of Western Christian Mysticism 3 copies

The Varieties of Vernacular Mysticism: 1350-1550 (The Presence of God) 2 copies

Die Mystik im Abendland: Sonderausgabe in 4 Bänden 1 copy

Also by Bernard McGinn

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The Literary Guide to the Bible (Contributor) 337 copies, 2 reviews
On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism (Mysticism & Kabbalah) (Foreword, some editions) 316 copies, 2 reviews
Meister Eckhart, teacher and preacher (some editions) 102 copies
Jean Gerson: Early Works (Classics of Western Spirituality Series) (Preface) 29 copies
Asceticism (Contributor) 12 copies
The Bloomsbury Guide to Christian Spirituality (Contributor) 2 copies
Scripture and Pluralism: Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural… (Contributor) 1 copy

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Yonkers, New York, USA

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St. Joseph's Seminary (BA ∙ 1959)

Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (STL ∙ 1963)

Brandeis University (PhD ∙ 1970)

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