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Evelyn Underhill (6 December 1875 – 15 June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.
Evelyn Underhill was an English mystical poet and author of such works as Mysticism (1911), The Mystic Way (1913), and Worship (1936), which helped establish mystical theology as a respectable discipline among contemporary intellectuals. Underhill was a lifelong Anglican, but she was also attracted.
Evelyn Underhill was a prolific writer who published 39 books and more than 350 articles and reviews. In her early years, she wrote on mysticism; in her latter years on the spiritual life as lived by ordinary people. This latter work is more accessible than the earlier writing.
EVELYN UNDERHILL. Underhill was a poet, novelist, spiritual author, and theologian—as well as being a sailor, bookbinder, and artist. Drawn simultaneously to psychology and mysticism, she was one of the preeminent spiritual voices of the twentieth century, in spite of the religious indifference of her parents and husband.
About Evelyn Underhill's Life. Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) was born at Wolverhampton on December 6, 1875, the only child of (Sir) Arthur Underhill, barrister, and a bencher of Lincoln's Inn, by his wife, Alice Lucy, younger daughter of Moses Ironmonger, justice of the peace of Wolverhampton.
Evelyn Underhill: Mystical mother of souls. 11 June 2021. Robyn Wrigley-Carr celebrates the life and legacy of Evelyn Underhill. Melvyn Longhurst/Alamy. Sculpture of Evelyn Underhill by Charles Gurrey of York, one of four added to the west front of Guildford Cathedral in 2004. She faces Archbishop Michael Ramsey.
A prolific writer, Evelyn Underhill lived from 1875 until 1941 and is known best as a spiritual guide and retreat leader at Pleshey in England. Denying the label mystic that others pinned on her, she taught that we are all created to experience the Holy directly, that the mystic way is the spiritual way open to us all.
Jun 15, 2024 · As World War II began, Evelyn Underhill was revising her retreat talks and her meditations on the Lord’s Prayer, first published in 1940 as Abba. Until her death in 1941, Underhill also wrote letters of support, inspiration, challenge, and courageous encouragement to a women’s prayer and study group–they called themselves ...
Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) was arguably the clearest and most poignant author on the topic of Christian mysticism in the twentieth century. However, her early beginnings gave no indication of promise for such a vocation—except, perhaps, her love of nature, botany, and yachting.
Evelyn Underhill began writing before she was sixteen and her first publication, A Bar-Lamb's Ballad Book, of humorous verse concerned with the law, appeared in 1902. In 1907 she married Hubert Stuart Moore, a barrister, whom she had known since childhood.
