In Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition Harvey Egan draws on fifty years of reading and teaching the mystics to sketch the varieties and passion of the mystical life across more than two millennia. Through their stories and words Egan reveals that all were conscious of the paradox of human identitysupremely and unsurpassably manifested in the God-Manthat the genuinely human is disclosed only through surrender to God and that the search for God cannot bypass the genuinely human.