bent, however, in no way obviated the contemplative posture of Christian mysticism, the form of spirituality congenial to Catholic immanentism. Augustine’s broad theology of grace resonates with the immanentist theme of divinization, especially in his explorations of Christian interiority, the ground of which is that gracious divine presence that is intimior intimo meo (closer to me than I am to myself). To the west Augustine mediated the biblical emphasis on the conative or erotic structure of the