“The Most Beautiful Pearls of Christian Culture”: Rob Faesen on Middle Dutch Mystical Theology

The Middle Dutch mystics have provided Christian theology (and spirituality) with great insight, and possibly as much confusion! Here to help us understand these thinkers better is Prof. Dr. Rob Faesen SJ, a seasoned expert in deciphering these profound thinkers. Faesen is part-time professor at KU Leuven (where he holds the Jesuitica chair) and at Tilburg University, and he is a prominent member of the Ruusbroec Institute at the University of Antwerp. His research concerns the medieval mystics of the Low Countries, most prominently Hadewijch, and Jan Van Ruusbroec