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.

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

* "Mani" (210-276);
* Athanasius of Alexandria (c.293–373);
* "Iamblichus" (d.c.330);

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);
* 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);
* 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);

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);
* Battista 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 (1618-52);
* 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)aka Dutch Remonstrants;
* 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);
* Madame Swetchine (1782-1857);
* Justinus Kerner (1786-1862);
* Bernhard Müller (c.1799-1834);
* 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);
* William Keil (1812-1877);
* James Strang (1813-1856);
* Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-81);
* Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823-96);
* Ellen G. White (1827–1915);
* John of Kronstadt (1829-1908);
* Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879);
* Richard Jeffries (1848-87);
* Johann Scheible (1849?);
* Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916);
* Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900);
* Lilias Trotter (1853-1928);
* 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);
* Feliksa Kozlowska (1862-1921) aka Felicja Kozlowska, aka Sister Maria Franciszka ;
* 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);
* 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);
* Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941);
* Pope Pius XII (1876–1958);
* Antonin Gadal (1877–1962);
* Edgar Cayce (1877-1945);
* Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964);
* Gemma Galgani (1878-1903);
* Margaret Prescott Montague (1878-1955);
* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955);
* Pavel Florensky (1882-1937);
* Corinne Heline (1882-1975);
* 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);
* 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);
* 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;
* Kris Vallotton;
* Todd Bentley;
* Matt Sorger;
* Julia Loren;
* John Loren Sandford;
* Zlatko Sudac (b. 1971);

See also

* 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)