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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465541079
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141907598
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
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0823220745
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
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307809056
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 : Carmel Bendon Davis
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813215228
"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 : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504093903
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 : Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881411337
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 : Harvey D. Egan
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814660126
"A Pueblo book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-615) and index.
Author : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848254169
A reissue of this classic collection of writings by John Main, exploring the benefits of silent prayer and Christian meditation
Author : Denys Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521645611
A closely argued book about what the negative tradition in Western theology involves.
Author : Daniel London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949643905
Do you believe that God is the self-giving Love that moves the sun and other stars as well as the Love that is closer to you than your very breath? If not, please stop reading altogether. If so, then proceed... As Daniel London's concise introduction explains, The Cloud of Unknowing teaches us that God is not a thought or an idea, but a loving presence to be encountered in the simplicity of silence. Whether you have treasured this classic text for years or are coming to it for the first time, you will find something here that speaks to your soul and invites you more deeply into the life of prayer. -Arthur Holder, PhD, Professor of Christian Spirituality, Graduate Theological Union, editor of Christian Spirituality: The Classics and The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality Like meeting an old friend after an absence and immediately being on intimate terms again, I met the essence of the beloved author of "the Cloud." This devotional brought me to tears and to belly laughs with that familiar wisdom and wink of slyness I have loved throughout my life. Daniel DeForest London has indeed distilled the author's authentic voice. -Suzanne Guthrie, author of Praying the Hours and Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer
Author : Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611803143
The best-selling author of The Wisdom Jesus and The Meaning of Mary Magdalene demystifies the popular Christian meditation method rooted in contemplative prayer Centering Prayer is the path to a wonderful and radical new way of seeing the world. It is not, as is sometimes thought, simply an act of devotional piety, nor is it simply a Christianized form of other meditation methods. Cynthia Bourgeault here cuts through the misconceptions to show that Centering Prayer is in fact a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition. She provides a practical, complete course in the practice and then goes deeper to analyze what actually happens in Centering Prayer: the mind effectively switches to a new operating system that makes possible the perception of nonduality. With this understanding in place, she then takes us on a journey through one of the sources of the practice, the Christian contemplative classic The Cloud of Unknowing, revealing it to be among the earliest Christian explorations of the phenomenology of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault’s illumination of the Centering Prayer path provides compelling evidence of how important the practice has become in the half-century since it first arose among American Trappist monks, and of its maturation and refinement over the ensuing years of sincere study and practice. It will resonate with beginners on the Centering Prayer path as well as with seasoned practitioners.
Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486121321
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.
Author : Arthur Versluis
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438466330
Restores the Platonic history and context of mysticism and shows how it helps us understand more deeply the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art. In Platonic Mysticism, Arthur Versluisclearly and tautly argues that mysticism must be properly understood as belonging to the great tradition of Platonism. He demonstrates how mysticism was historically understood in Western philosophical and religious traditions and emphatically rejects externalist approaches to esoteric religion. Instead he develops a new theoretical-critical model for understanding mystical literature and the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art. A sequel to his Restoring Paradise, this is an audacious book that places Platonic mysticism in the context of contemporary cognitive and other approaches to the study of religion, and presents an emerging model for the new field of contemplative science. An important work on the mystical experience delving deep into its history, particularly from the Platonic perspective. An essential text for anyone interested in mysticism and its relationship to philosophy and creative expression. Andrew Newberg, author of How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation The present work, the latest from the pen of Arthur Versluis, provides a trenchant, learned, and illuminating analysis of the origins of Western mysticism in the Platonist tradition, relayed through such figures as Plotinus and Dionysius the Areopagite, down through Meister Eckhart and others, while suitably excoriating the attempts of certain modern philosophers and sociologists of religion to deconstruct it from a materialist perspective. I found it a rattling good read! John Dillon, author of The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347274 BC)
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780486824277
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.