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The Cloud Of Unknowing
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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The Cloud Of Unknowing written by Anonymous and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The Cloud Of Unknowing
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Author : William Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Image
Release Date : 2012-01-11
The Cloud Of Unknowing written by William Johnston and has been published by Image this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-11 with Religion categories.
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.
The Cloud Of Unknowing And Other Works
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2001-08-30
The Cloud Of Unknowing And Other Works written by and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-30 with Religion categories.
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.
The Cloud Of Unknowing
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Author : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
language : en
Publisher: New City Press
Release Date : 2008
The Cloud Of Unknowing written by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard and has been published by New City Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
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.
The Cloud Of Unknowing
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Author : Thomas H. Cook
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2007-09-10
The Cloud Of Unknowing written by Thomas H. Cook and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-10 with Fiction categories.
A “gripping” mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness (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 died with him. But the Sears family was not through with its troubles. The drowning of Diana’s mentally ill son has been ruled a tragic “misadventure,” a conclusion she refuses to accept. After hastily divorcing her husband, she sets out to prove his culpability. Her increasingly manic behavior is becoming hard for David to ignore. He finds himself afraid for his own family’s safety—and choosing his words carefully when answering the detective. Edgar Award–winning author 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” (New York Daily News). “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
The Cloud Of Unknowing
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Author : James Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date : 1981
The Cloud Of Unknowing written by James Walsh and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Written by an anonymous English monk during the late 14th century, The Cloud of Unknowing puts forth a method of contemplation that stresses the impotence of the understanding to break through the cloud of unknowing that separates God and humanity.
The Cloud Of Unknowing
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Author : Evelyn Underhill
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-05-01
The Cloud Of Unknowing written by Evelyn Underhill and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with Religion categories.
"Unlike many mystics, who celebrate ecstasies, visions, voices, the scent of strange perfumes, [and] the hearing of sweet sounds, he believed that the key to a closer relationship with God required private thought and prayer, and the elimination of all other distractions. He distrusted psychic phenomena, believing they were the accidents rather than the substance of the contemplative life, and quite possibly the work of the Devil. He felt that such hallucinations led only to self-deception and brought the believer no closer to God. Humorous at times, and written in plain English, The Cloud of Unknowing is intended for the general reader, especially the beginner in contemplation unsure about how to overcome initial difficulties. British writer of prose and poetry EVELYN UNDERHILL (1875 1941) was a fellow of King s College for Women and King s College, and was the first woman to lecture to the clergy in the Church of England. Through her radio appearances and her stint as editor of the political magazine The Spectator, she was a familiar voice in British public life between the wars. She authored more than 30 books (some under the pseudonym John Cordelier), including Concerning the Inner Life and Radiance: A Spiritual Memoir."
The Cloud Of Unknowing
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Release Date : 2011-10-15
The Cloud Of Unknowing written by Anonymous and has been published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide to contemplative prayer. "Be willing to be blind, and give up all longing to know the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help." This 1912 edition was edited by Evelyn Underhill, and contains her introduction.
On The Unity Of Christ
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Author : Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria)
language : en
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Release Date : 1995
On The Unity Of Christ written by Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria) and has been published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Religion categories.
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.
The Cloud Of Unknowing
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Author : Evelyn Underhill
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-07
The Cloud Of Unknowing written by Evelyn Underhill and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-07 with Philosophy categories.
This 14th-century manual for those starting on the path to a contemplative life states that a "cloud of unknowing" separates people from God, and that it can only be penetrated by love.