The Cloud of Unknowing
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465541071 |
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Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465541071 |
Author | : |
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 | : 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.
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.
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 | : Carmel Bendon Davis |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813215226 |
"To understand both the theological and spatial parameters, Davis considers the mystical experience as being not only an exclusively "inner" apprehension but also an embodied one that takes place in what she designates as "mystical space." In conception mystical space is analogous to the literary figure of the mise en abyme, an impression of infinite regress that duplicates within all its layers the qualities of the larger, initiating structure without. Such a conception acknowledges that space has been widely conceptualized through the centuries, and it allows both medieval and contemporary theories of space to be employed in examining the mystics' lives and works".
Author | : Harvey D. Egan |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780814660126 |
"A Pueblo book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-615) and index.
Author | : Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria) |
Publisher | : St Vladimir's Seminary Press |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780881411331 |
This text is one of the most important and yet approachable works produced by Cyril. It was written after the Council of Ephesus (431) to explain his doctrine to an international audience. Cyril argues for the single divine subjectivity of Christ, and describes how it encompasses a full and authentic humanity in Jesus - a human experience that is not overwhelmed by the divine presence, but fostered and enhanced by it. Christology becomes then, for St Cyril, a paradigm for the transfigured and redeemed life of the Christian. There is an introduction to the historical and theological background of the time, of the text and to St Cyril himself.
Author | : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard |
Publisher | : New City Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1565482808 |
Those who turn to spiritual classics for guidance and inspiration often find their style daunting. The original texts still have much to offer but their diction and idiom, chosen for another era and audience, pose an obstacle to many contemporary readers. The Cloud of Unknowing for Everyone is the latest in a series that aims to make some of the greatest Christian teachers accessible to all. The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an unknown fourteenth century author, points out that all we can know of God is slight; God in Godself is unknowable to our limited intellect and thought. Only love can bridge the gap, love like an arrow of longing simple, straightforward and direct. All who feel called to a life of prayer will be captivated by the balanced, precise and practical insights of The Cloud. In her retelling of this classic, Obbard invites contemporary readers to join previous generations who have discovered the riches of this classic text.
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