List of Christian mystics

Not everyone listed here is Christian or a mystic, but all have contributed to the Christian understanding of, connection to and/or direct experience of God. Mysticism is the pursuit of communion with, identity with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion. You can help by expanding it with sourced additions.

Contents 1 1st Century 2 2nd Century 3 3rd Century 4 4th Century 5 5th Century 6 6th Century 7 7th Century 8 8th Century 9 9th Century 10 10th Century 11 11th Century 12 12th Century 13 13th Century 14 14th Century 15 15th Century 16 16th Century 17 17th Century 18 18th Century 19 19th Century 20 20th Century 21 See also 22 Sources, References

1st Century

• John the Baptist;
• Paul the Apostle (? –c. 66);
• John the Apostle (? –c.100);
• Peter the Apostle;

2nd Century

• Marcion of Sinope (c.110–160);
• Clement of Alexandria (c.150–216);
• Origen (c.185–253);
• Basilides (2nd c);
• Valentinus (c.100–c.160);
• Heracleon (2nd c);
• Hermas (freedman) (2nd c);
• John of Patmos (2nd c);
• Numenius of Apamea (2nd c);

3rd Century

4th Century

• Macarius of Egypt(c.300–90);
• Ephraem of Syria (c.306–73);
• Basil the Great (c.329–79), aka Basil of Caesarea;
• Augustine of Hippo (c.354–430);
• Priscillian of Ávila (d. 385);
• Gregory of Nazianzus (329–389);
• Evagrius Ponticus (345–399);
• John Chrysostom (c.347–407);
• John of Lycopolis (d.c.394);
• Gregory of Nyssa (c.340–94);
• Evagrius Ponticus (346–99);
• John Cassian (c.360–434);

5th Century

6th Century

• Gregory I "The Great" (c.540–604);
• John Climacus (525–606);
• Maximus the Confessor (c.580–662);
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5th–6th c), aka Pseudo-Dionysius, aka St. Denys;
• Julianus pomerius (6th c);

7th Century

• Isaac of Nineveh (7th c);

• Anastasius Sinaita (7th c);

8th Century

• Adalbert (8th c);

9th Century

• Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c.810–77);
• Liutberga of Wendhausen (d.860?);
• Ratherius of Verona (890–974);
• Smaragdus (9th c);

10th Century

• Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022) aka Symeon of Studion;
• William of Volpiano (962–1031);
• Gregory of Narek (951–1003);
• Bogomils (c. 950–14th c);
• Wiborada (d. 926);

11th Century

• Gundolfo (teaching in 1024);
• Bruno of Cologne (c.1032–1101);
• Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109);
• Hugh of St Victor (c.1078–1141), aka Hugh the Saxon
• William of St. Thierry (c.1085–1148);
• Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153);
• Henry of Lausanne (d.c. 1148), aka Henry the Monk
• Christina of Markyate (1097–1161)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179);
• Cathars (11th to 14th century);

12th Century

• Peter Lombard (c.1100–1160);
• Aelred or Ailred of Rievaulx (1110–1167);
• Peter of Bruys (1117–c.1131);
• Alain de Lille (c. 1128–1202);
• Elizabeth of Schonau (1129–1164);
• Joachim of Fiore (c.1131–1202);
• Peter Waldo (c.1140–1218);
• Adam of St. Victor (d.1146);
• Thierry of Chartres (d.c.1150);
• Hadewijch of Antwerp (c.1150–1200);
• Christina the Astonishing (1150–1224);
• Yvette of Huy (1158–1228);
• David of Dinant (c.1160–1217);
• Richard of St. Victor (d. 1173);
• Waldensians (c.1177–1532);
• Edmund Rich (c.1180–1240);
• Francis of Assisi (1181–1226);
• Lutgardis (1182–1246);
• Clare of Assisi (1194–1253);
• Anthony of Padua (1195–1231);
• Amaury de Montfort (1195–1241);
• Ida of Nivelles (c.1199–1231);
• Marie of Oignies (d.1213);
• Alice of Schaerbeek (d.1250);

13th Century

• Thomas Gallus (c.1200–1246);
• David of Augsburg (c.1200–1272);
• Albertus Magnus (1200–1280);
• Brethren of the Free Spirit (c.1200);
• Amalric of Bena (died c. 1204–1207), aka Amaury de Bène or Amaury de Chartres; aka Almaricus, Amalricus, Amauricus;
• Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210–1285 or 1295);
• Douceline of Provence (1214–1274);
• Margaret of Ypres (1216–1237);
• Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221–1274);
• Thomas Aquinas (c.1225–1274);
• Jacopone da Todi (c.1230–1306);
• Ramon Lull (c.1232–1315);
• Marguerite d'Oingt (of Mionnay) (c.1240–1306/1310);
• Mechtilde of Hackeborn (1241–1299);
• Christina von Stommeln (1242–1312);
• Angela of Foligno (1248–1309);
• Gertrude the Great (1256–1302), aka Gertrude of Helfta;
• Juliana of Cornillon (d.1258);
• Ida of Leeuw (d.1260);
• Meister Eckhart (1260–1328);
• Heilwige Bloemardinne (1265?-1335) aka Heilwijch Blomart
• Eve of St. Martin (d.1265);
• Beatrice of Nazareth (d.1268);
• Christina Ebner (1277–1355);
• Richard Rolle (c. 1290–1349);
• Margareta Ebner (1291–1351);
• John of Ruysbroeck (1293–1381);
• Gregory Palamas (c.1296–1359);
• Henry Suso (c.1296–1366);
• Ida of Louvain (d.1300);
• Marguerite Porete (of Hainaut) (d.1310) ;
• Christine of Stommeln (d.1312);
• Elizabeth of Spalbeek (d.1316);
• Gertrude of Oosten (d.1358);
• Dorothea of Prussia (13th c);
• The Ancrene Rule (13th c);
• Beguines and Beghards (13th c);

14th Century

• Richard Rolle (c.1300-49);
• Johannes Tauler (c.1300-1361);
• Henry Suso (c.1300-1366);
• Jeanne Dabenton (d. 1372)
• Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373);
• Rulman Merswin (c.1307-82);
• Nicholas of Basel (1308-1397);
• William Langland (c. 1330-1400);
• Geert Groote (1340-84);
• Walter Hilton (d.1396);
• Julian of Norwich (1342-1416);
• Author of The Cloud of Unknowing(c.1345-1386);
• Catherine of Siena (1347-1380);
• Book of the Nine Rocks (c.1351);
• Hendrik Mande (c.1360-1431);
• Jean le Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429);
• Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen (1367-1398);
• Margery Kempe (1373-1438);
• Gerlac Peterson (1378-1411);
• Lydwine of Schiedam (1380-1432);
• Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471);
• Nicholas Cabasilas (14th c);
• Nicholas of Strasburg (14th c);
• Henry of Norlingen (14th c);
• Friends of God (14th c);
• Theologia Germanica (late 14th c);
• Turlupins (14th c)

15th Century

• Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464);
• Denys of Rykel (1402-1471), aka Denis the Carthusian;
• Hendrik Herp (c. 1410-1477)
• Joan of Arc (1412-1431);
• Alain de la Roche (1428-1475);
• Columba Rieti (c.1430-1501);
• Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510);
• Osanna Andreasi of Mantua (1449-1505);
• Richard Methley (b.1451);
• Garcia de Cisneros (c.1456-1510);
• Hans Böhm (d.1476);
• Balthasar Hubmaier (c. 1480–1528);
• Bernardio de Laredo (1482-1540);
• Martin Luther (1483–1546);
• La Beata de Piedrahita (c.1485—1524);
• Balthasar Hubmaier (c.1485-1528);
• Andreas Karlstadt (1486-1541);
• Catherine of Racconigi (1487–1574);
• Thomas Müntzer (c. 1488–1525);
• Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556);
• Thomas Munzer (c.1490-1525);
• George Blaurock (c. 1491–1529);
• Paracelsus (1493-1541);
• Osanna of Cattaro (1493-1565);
• Hans Denck (c.1495-1527);
• Menno Simons (1496-1561);
• Battistina Vernazza (1497-1587);
• Conrad Grebel (c. 1498-1526);
• Felix Manz (c. 1498–1527);
• Sebastian Franck (1499-1542);
• Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562);
• Nicholas Storch (d. 1525);
• Francisco de Osuna (d.c.1540);
• Lucia of Narni (15th c);
• John Norton (15th c);

16th Century

• Juan of Avila (1500-1569);
• Alfonso de Orozco (1500-1591);
• David Jorus (c.1501-1556);
• Hendrik Niclaes (c.1501-1580);
• Luis de Granada (1504-1588);
• Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) aka Teresa of Jesus;
• Philip Neri (1515-1595);
• Catherine de Ricci (1522-1590);
• Diego de Estella (1524-1578);
• Luis de Leon (1528-1591);
• Juan de los Angeles (1536-1609);
• John of the Cross (1542-1591);
• Martin Moller (1547-1606);
• Giordano Bruno (1548-1600);
• Benet of Canfield (1562-1610);
• Thomas a Jesu (1564-1627);
• Maria Magdalena de'Pazzi (1566-1607);
• Madame Acarie (1566-1618);
• François de Sales (1567-1622);
• Joseph Hall (1574-1656);
• Jakob Böhme (1575-1624);
• Pierre de Berulle (1575-1629);
• Augustine Baker (1575-1641);
• Joseph Leclerc du Tremblay (1577-1638);
• Rose of Lima (1586-1617);
• Louis Lallemant (1587-1635);
• Charles de Condren (1588-1641);
• Angelique Arnauld (1591-1661);
• Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637);
• George Herbert (1593-1633);
• Agnes Arnauld (1593-1671);
• Marie of the Incarnation (1599-1672);
• Louis de Blois (16th c);
• Los Alumbrados (16th c);
• Francisco de Osuna (16th c);
• Bernardino de Laredo (16th c);
• Bernabe de Palma (16th c);
• Isabel de la Cruz (16th c);
• Pedro de Alcaraz (16th c);

17th Century

• Jean Joseph Surin (1600-65);
• John Eudes (1601-80);
• María de Agreda (1602-1665) aka Maria of Jesus, aka Blue Nun;
• Ursula de Jesus (1604-1666);
• Thomas Browne (1605-1682);
• Dame Gertrude More (1606-33);
• John Pordage (1607-1681);
• Jean-Jacques Olier (1608-1657);
• John Reeve (1608-1658);
• Thomas Totney (1608-1659);
• Gerrard Winstanley (c.1609-55);
• Benjamin Whichcote (1609-83);
• Ludowicke Muggleton (1609-98);
• Brother Lawrence (c. 1610-1691);
• Richard Crashaw (c.1612-49);
• Antoine Arnauld (1612-94);
• Jeremy Taylor (1613-67);
• Henry More (1614-87);
• Isaac Penington (1616-79);
• Antoinette Bourignon (1616-80);
• Ralph Cudworth (1617-88);
• John Smith (Platonist) (1618-52);
• James Nayler (1618-1660);
• Thomas Vaughan (1621-1666) aka Eugenius Philalethes;
• Henry Vaughan (1622-1695);
• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662);
• Jane Leade (1624-1704);
• Angelus Silesius (1624-77)aka Johann Scheffler;
• George Fox (1624-1691);
• Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704);
• Miguel de Molinos (1628-1697);
• Thomas Bromley (1629-1691);
• Sarah Wight (1632-?);
• Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705);
• Thomas Traherne (c.1636-74);
• Charles Marshall (1637-1698);
• Johann George Gichtel (1638-1710);
• Francois La Combe (1643-1712);
• Johann Jacob Zimmermann (1644–1693);
• Jakob Ammann (c.1644-1730);
• Pierre Poiret (1646-1719);
• Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-80);
• Madame Guyon (1648-1717) aka Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon;
• Johann Wilhelm Petersen (1649-1727);
• François Fénelon (1651-1715);
• Georg von Welling (1652-1727);
• Gottfried Arnold (1666-1714);
• Johannes Kelpius (1673-1708);
• Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716);
• Jean Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751);
• Kimpa Vita (1684 – 1706), aka Dona Beatriz;
• John Heylyn (1685-1759);
• William Law (1686-1761);
• Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772);
• Christoph Schütz (1689-1750);
• Conrad Beissel (1691-1768);
• Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787);
• Gerhard Tersteegen (1697-1769);
• Collegiants (17th c)
• Marguerite Acarie (17th c);
• Pierre Guerin (17th c);
• Joseph Salmon (17th c);
• Malaval (17th c);

18th Century

• Sarah Pierrepont (1710-58);
• John Woolman (1720-1772);
• Hryhori Skovoroda (1722-94);
• Tikhon of Zadonsk (1724-83);
• Jean Grou (1731-1803);
• Ann Lee (1736-1784);
• Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803);
• Karl von Eckartshausen (1752-1803);
• William Blake (1757-1827);
• George Rapp (1757-1847);
• Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1833);
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850);
• Anna Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824);
• William Miller (1782-1849);
• Madame Swetchine (1782-1857);
• Justinus Kerner (1786-1862);
• Bernhard Müller (1788-1834);
• Joseph Bates (1792-1872);
• Dionysius Andreas Freher (18th c);

19th Century

• Jakob Lorber (1800-1864);
• Friederike Hauffe (1801-1829)
• Brigham Young (1801-1877);
• Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866);
• Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844);
• Hiram Edson (1806–1882);
• William Keil (1812-1877);
• James Strang (1813-1856);
• James Springer White (1821-1881);
• Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881);
• Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910);
• Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823-96);
• Ellen G. White (1827–1915);
• J. N. Andrews (1829-1883);
• John of Kronstadt (1829-1908);
• Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879);
• Malinda Cramer (1844-1906);
• Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1931);
• Thomas Troward (1847-1916);
• Richard Jeffries (1848-87);
• H. Emilie Cady (1848-1941);
• Johann Scheible (1849?);
• Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925);
• Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916);
• Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900);
• Lilias Trotter (1853-1928);
• Charles Fillmore (1854–1948);
• Lucie-Christine (1858-1916);
• Charles Eugene de Foucauld (1858-1916);
• Ambroise Gardeil (1859-1931);
• Smith Wigglesworth (1859-1947);
• Juan Gonzalez Arintero (1860-1928);
• William Ralph Inge (1860-1954);
• Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925);
• Nona L. Brooks (1861-1945);
• Feliksa Kozlowska (1862-1921) aka Felicja Kozlowska, aka Sister Maria Franciszka ;
• William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932);
• Hilma af Klint (1862-1944);
• Rufus Jones (1863-1948);
• Peter Deunov (1864-1944);
• Max Heindel (1865-1919);
• John Chapman (1865-1933);
• Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938);
• Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869—1942);
• Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916);
• William J. Seymour (1870-1922);
• John G. Lake (1870-1935);
• Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944);
• Thérèse de Lisieux (1873-1897);
• Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948);
• Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874-1954);
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926);
• Lena Sadler (1875-1939);
• Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941);
• William S. Sadler (1875-1969);
• Antonin Gadal (1877–1962);
• Edgar Cayce (1877–1945);
• Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964);
• Gemma Galgani (1878–1903);
• Margaret Prescott Montague (1878-1955);
• Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906);
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955);
• Pavel Florensky (1882-1937);
• Corinne Heline (1882-1975);
• Emmet Fox (1886-1951);
• Walter C. Lanyon (1887-1967);
• Padre Pio (1887-1968), aka Pio of Pietrelcina;
• T. S. Eliot (1888-1965);
• Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889–1929);
• Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944);
• Theresa-Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942) aka Edith Stein;
• Joel S. Goldsmith (1892-1964);
• Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941);
• John Maximovitch (1896-1966);
• Jan van Rijckenborgh (1896-1968);
• Archimandrite Sophrony (1896-1993);
• Maria Valtorta (1897–1961);
• Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897-1963);
• Therese Neumann (1898-1962);
• C.S. Lewis (1898-1963);
• Porfiry Ivanov (1898-1983);

20th Century

• Jan Tyranowski (1900-1947);
• Sampson Sievers (1900-1979);
• Caryll Houselander (1901-1954);
• Adrienne von Speyr (1902-1967);
• Catharose de Petri (1902-1990);
• Watchman Nee (1903-1972);
• Mary Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938);
• Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961);
• Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959);
• Bede Griffiths (1906-1993);
• Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio (1907-1990);
• Kathleen Raine (1908-2003);
• William Branham (1909-1965);
• Katharine Trevelyan (1909-?)
• Flower A. Newhouse (1909–1994);
• Simone Weil (1909–1943);
• Nikolay Guryanov (1909-2002);
• Alphonsa Muttathupandathu (1910-1946);
• Mother Teresa (1910-1997);
• A. A. Allen (1911-1970);
• Stylianos Atteshlis (1912-1995);
• James Dillet Freeman (1912-2003);
• Thomas Merton (1915–1968);
• Vernon Howard (1918-1992);
• Oral Roberts (1918-);
• Jack Coe (1918-1956);
• Cyril Pavlov (1919-);
• Brian Cleeve (1921–2003);
• Thomas Keating (b. 1923);
• John A. Sanford (1929-2005);
• Jacques Fesch (1930-1957);
• Anthony de Mello (1931-1987);
• Henri Nouwen (1932-1996);
• Kathleen Norris (1947-);
• Kathleen Fisher (20th c);
• Richard Foster (20th c);
• William Meninger (20th c);
• Mary K. Baxter (20th c);
• Vassula Ryden (b.1942);
• Guy Finley (b. 1949);
• Lonnie Frisbee (1949-1993);
• John Wimber (1934-1997);
• Father Peter Bowes;
• Mother Clare Watts;
• Rick Joyner;
• Bob Jones (Kansas City prophet);
• Mike Bickle;
• James Goll;
• John Paul Jackson;
• Lou Engle;
• Rodney Howard-Browne (1961-);
• Randy Clark (Toronto Blessing);
• John Arnott (Toronto Blessing);
• Jay N. Forrest (b. 1964);
• Bill Johnson;
• Jack Deere;
• Wayne Grudem;
• Kris Vallotton;
• Todd Bentley;
• Matt Sorger;
• Julia Loren;
• John Loren Sandford;
• Zlatko Sudac (b. 1971);

See also

• Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
• Christian mysticism
• Esoteric Christianity
• Mysticism
• German mysticism
• List of spirituality-related topics
• List of people burned as heretics
• Heresy
• English Dissenters
• Flying Saints
• List of Christian theologians
• Prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Sources, References

• John Ferguson; Encyclopedia of Mysticism and Mystery Religions (Crossroad: New York, 1982)
• Rufus M. Jones; Sprititual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Beacon Press: Boston, 1959)
• E.H. Broadbent; The Pilgrim Church (Pickering & Inglis, Bassingstoke, 1985)
• Paul Szarmach, editor; An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe (State University of New York Press: Albany, 1984)
• R.I. Moore; The Birth of Popular Heresy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975)
• Evelyn Underhill; Mystics of the Church (Morehouse-Barlow: Wilton CT, 1925)
• F.C. Happold; Mysticism, A Study and an Anthology (Penguin Books: Baltimore, 1963)