Cloud of Unknowing (eBook)

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2018
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-82976-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This 14th-century text for those starting on the path to a contemplative life offers a prayerful approach to transcending the "cloud of unknowing" that separates people from God.

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A classic of Christian mysticism, this marvelous guide to the contemplative life originated with the reflections of an unknown 14th-century priest who believed that a "e;cloud of unknowing"e; separates people from God. This cloud, the writer maintained, cannot be penetrated by intellect but only by love.The Cloud of Unknowing offers an approach to contemplative life that finds holiness at a level deeper than physical experience and beyond language or image. The author advises placing all thought and mental imagery behind a metaphorical "e;cloud of forgetting"e; while seeking to love the divine. Hidden from the infinite consciousness by a "e;cloud of unknowing,"e; divine love can be reached through monologistic prayer: a single-word prayer, like a mantra, that assists in abandoning all extraneous thought. Seekers can thus attain an inner silence, where they may "e;be still and know the sacred."e; The author's spiritual gifts, combined with humor and a straightforward approach, offer a view of divinity that never loses the common touch. Written in everyday language and edited by Clifton Wolters, a popular authority on mysticism, this venerable work can be understood and appreciated by any reader.

Autor

Kim Boykin has a Ph.D. in theology from Emory University. She teaches at Marymount College and is the author of Zen for Christians.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2018
• Übersetzer: Clifton Wolters
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: christain mysticism • christain mystics • Christianity • christianity and love • Christian meditation • christian mysticism • Cloud of unknowing • Coming of Age • conflict • contemplative christianity • Contemplative Prayer • Destiny • discussion books • engaging • faith and religion • feel good • god and religion • gods plan • guide to prayer • Hardship • Humanity • humor and spiritualism • infinite consciousness • Life Changes • life struggle • Love • love in christianity • medieval mystics • Meditation • meditation in christianity • metaphorical example • mysticism • Mysticism • Page Turner • Power of prayer • Prayer • religious meditation • Spiritual • Spiritual gifts • St. Augustine • Stories of Faith • strengthen relationship with god • unknowing cloud • uplifting stories • way of prayer • way of the pilgrim • Zen
• ISBN-10: 0-486-82976-6 / 0486829766
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82976-0 / 9780486829760