The Mystic Way reviews the development of the mystical tradition within Christianity and defines the true character and origin of the Christian mystic. The author also examines how Christian mystics differ from mystics of other spiritual traditions--and how Christian teachings enrich the mystical experience.
Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.
In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the twentieth century. No other book of its type—until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy—met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911.