0:32 I don't think it's only rooted in the Christian life. Other religions have their own mysticism. A mystic is someone who investigated and practices as many of them as they can.
McGinn is well aware that other religions have their own mysticisms. What he is saying is that the lives of Christian mystics were not exclusively solitary and monastic but were bound up with the exoteric practices of normal, non-mystical Christian living.
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0:32 I don't think it's only rooted in the Christian life. Other religions have their own mysticism. A mystic is someone who investigated and practices as many of them as they can.
McGinn is well aware that other religions have their own mysticisms. What he is saying is that the lives of Christian mystics were not exclusively solitary and monastic but were bound up with the exoteric practices of normal, non-mystical Christian living.