ABSTRACT

This essay offers some preliminary reflections on the mystical theology of the Monk of Farne and how for him, deification was an idea that encapsulates everything that Christ desires to achieve in the Christian. Living on Farne Island off the coast of Northumberland, the Monk of Farne wrote around the same time as the so-called ‘English Mystics’. However, unlike them, he composed only in Latin. Consequently, his Meditations have not been the subject of extensive scholarly interest. Nelstrop explores several striking passages in the Monk of Farne’s Meditations, concluding that though his conception of deification was perhaps not as radical as some earlier forms, the doctrine is certainly present in his thought.