Mystical union

Mystical union

Mystical union may refer to:

  • Mysticism, the pursuit or experience of direct communion between a believer and an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God
  • Mystical theology, the school of thought which treats of acts and experiences or states of the soul which cannot be produced by human effort
  • Hypostatic union, term in Christian theology to describe the presence of both human and divine natures in Jesus Christ
  • Sacramental union, the Lutheran theological doctrine of the presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Christian Eucharist.

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