«2 Seeking the essence of Christianity, Troeltsch threaded his way between arguments for the knowledge of God by linguistic formulation and other arguments that discovered the path in mystical encounter.3 He located the bond between humanity and God in the cultic life of the community. (religion-online.org)
What is the difference between the mystical encounter and what we think of today as charismatic experiences — if in fact they are distinct? (religion-online.org)
When you get to the 13th century in The Flowering of Mysticism, the mystical encounter seems to take on a decidedly charismatic expression in which the individual is somehow visibly touched by the divine — Francis being perhaps the prime example of the believer who so puts on Christ that he bears Christ's wounds. (religion-online.org)