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| Author | : John Main |
| Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2013-01-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1848254164 |
A reissue of this classic collection of writings by John Main, exploring the benefits of silent prayer and Christian meditation
| Author | : Anonymous |
| Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1465541071 |
| Author | : Saint John of the Cross |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Mysticism |
| ISBN | : 9780969987659 |
| Author | : William Johnston |
| Publisher | : Image |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2012-01-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0307809056 |
THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING and THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING are the first explorations in the English language of the soul’s quest for God. Written in Middle English by an unknown fourteenth-century mystic, THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING expresses with beauty a message that has inspired such great religious thinkers as St. John of the Cross and Teilhard de Chardin, as well as countless others in search of God. Offering a practical guide to the life of contemplation, the author explains that ordinary thoughts and earthly concepts must be buried beneath a “cloud of forgetting,” while our love must rise toward a God hidden in the “cloud of unknowing.” THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING, also included in this volume, is a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and a consciousness only of the divine. William Johnston, an authority on fourteenth-century mysticism and spirituality, provides an accessible discussion of the works, detailing what is known about the history of the texts and their author. In a new foreword, Huston Smith draws on his extensive knowledge of the varieties of religious experience to illuminate the relevance of these works for contemporary readers.
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| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2001-08-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0141907592 |
Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language. These four texts are at the heart of medival mystical theology in their call for contemplation, calm, and above all, love, as the way to understand the Divine.
| Author | : John Main |
| Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2013-01-03 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1848254059 |
A collection of short quotes, which are intended as springboards for contemplation, are drawn from his talks, letters, journals and other unpublished sources. They are gathered around a number of themes relating to the practice of Christian meditation including: Peace, Purity of heart, Contacting the centre, Truth, Expectations, Distractions, Union with God, and Hope. As well as being a rich spiritual treasury for meditation, this is a resource for anyone looking for profound and beautiful spiritual quotations.
| Author | : John Main |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 131 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Christian life |
| ISBN | : 9780232518399 |
This book serves a double purpose: for those who already meditate, it will deepen the pilgrimage of the heart; those who are starting out on this journey will be encourage and enabled. This is a book to be read in conjunction with the experience of prayer. It is not about meditation; it is for meditation. Above all it is a book dominated by the spirit of Christ--for the author believed that it was his first task to stand aside and to reveal the teachings of the Lord. He will have successfully taught us if his words lead us not to think about him or his wisdom, but to the stillness in which we know God.
| Author | : Richard Rohr |
| Publisher | : Convergent Books |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2019-03-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1524762105 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives. “Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center. Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet. Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.
| Author | : Thomas H. Cook |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2024-02-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1504093909 |
A “gripping” mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness, by the Edgar Award–winning author (Entertainment Weekly). David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David’s sister, Diana, for her superior intelligence. When the old man died, David thought the madness had finally left with him. But the Sears family was not through with its troubles. The drowning of Diana’s mentally ill son was ruled a tragic “misadventure,” but she believes other factors were at play. After hastily divorcing her husband, she sets out to prove his guilt. Her increasingly manic behavior is becoming hard for David to ignore. He finds himself afraid for his own family’s safety—and must choose his words carefully when answering the detective . . . Thomas H. Cook explores the power of blood to define us, bind us, and sometimes destroy us, in a novel of “consuming suspense almost too concentrated to bear” (Daily News, New York). “So spare and precise, it feels as if it has been chiseled in stone with something like a surgical instrument.” —Joyce Carol Oates “What’s at stake isn’t so much the resolution of a mystery as the integrity of a family.” —Time Out New York “[An] unusual, chilling mystery . . . Cook reveals all the pieces of the shocking story with an absolutely steady hand.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
| Author | : William Johnston |
| Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9780823220748 |
For centuries, mystics have groped for words in which to account for the supreme reality of this experience which not only illuminates a man's mind and fills his heart with new strength, but even radically transforms his whole life. All this is said in classic and unforgettable pages by TheCloud of Unknowing, the work of an anonymous fourteenth-century English writer.
