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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

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ISBN : 0140447628
Pages : 336 pages
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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works PDF by Full Book and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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Pages : 171 pages
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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by Anonymous Full Book and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one's mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God.

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by Evelyn Underhill Full Book and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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The Cloud of Unknowing (不知之雲)

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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing (不知之雲) PDF by Anonymous Full Book and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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ISBN : 0486824276
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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by Full Book and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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ISBN : 0834841487
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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by Carmen Acevedo Butcher Full Book and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvellously readable translation of the great Middle English classic of Christian mysticism. Now part of the beautifully designed Shambhala Pocket Library collection. This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher's new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom--while remaining strictly faithful to the meaning of the original Middle English. The Cloud of Unknowing consists of a series of letters written by a monk to his student or disciple, instructing him (or her) in the way of Divine union. Its theology is presented in a way that is remarkably easy to understand, as well as practical, providing advice on prayer and contemplation that anyone can use. Previous translations of the Cloud have tended to veil its intimate, even friendly tone under medieval-sounding language. Carmen Butcher has boldly brought the text into language as appealing to modern ears as it was to its original readers more than five hundred years ago.

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The Mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing

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ISBN : 9780823220748
Pages : 326 pages
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Download and Read The Mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by William Johnston Full Book and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by Full Book and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom—while remaining strictly faithful to the meaning of the original Middle English. The Cloud of Unknowing consists of a series of letters written by a monk to his student or disciple, instructing him (or her) in the way of Divine union. Its theology is presented in a way that is remarkably easy to understand, as well as practical, providing advice on prayer and contemplation that anyone can use. Previous translations of the Cloud have tended to veil its intimate, even friendly tone under medieval-sounding language. Carmen Butcher has boldly brought the text into language as appealing to modern ears as it was to its original readers more than five hundred years ago. Also included in the volume is the companion work attributed to the same anonymous author, The Book of Privy Counsel, which contains further advice for approaching God in a way that emphasizes real experience rather than human knowledge. To learn more about the author, visit her website: carmenbutcher.com

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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ISBN : 0486121321
Pages : 176 pages
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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by Evelyn Underhill Full Book and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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ISBN : 0385281447
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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by Ira Progoff Full Book and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 1989-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fourteenth-century England an anonymous monk wrote an extraordinary text illuminating the life of contemplative devotion and the drama of the soul’s union with God. Precariously heretical in its day, it became a classic of Christian mystical thought. Dr. Ira Progoff’s brilliant new translation and commentary illustrate The Cloud of Unknowing’s ongoing relevance. Dr. Progoff reveals a bridge spanning the perilous abyss between modern psychology’s self-conscious analytic thought and the pressing spiritual needs of modern man. Praise for Ira Progoff’s The Cloud of Unknowing “One of the classic guides to spiritual experience revealing the dynamics of the inner life.”—The Washington Post “[Dr. Progoff’s] translation makes a psychological genius come alive.”—Harry A. Overstreet “Astonishingly modern and timely . . . This fourteenth-century mystic speaks to us with a message that is as vital today as it was then.”—New York Post “Translated from archaic to modern English with lucidity and fine comprehension . . . a delightful surprise.”—The Dayton Journal Herald

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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Treatises [The Epistle of Privy Counsel]

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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Treatises [The Epistle of Privy Counsel] PDF by Justin McCann Full Book and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Reprint of 1952 Revised Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. "The Cloud of Unknowing" is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. Along with "The Cloud" were written six accompanying treaties. Chief among these is "Epistle of Privy Counsel" which is also reproduced in this text. "The Cloud" is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer. The underlying message of this work proposes that the only way to truly "know" God is to abandon all preconceived notions and beliefs or "knowledge" about God and be courageous enough to surrender your mind and ego to the realm of "unknowingness," at which point, you begin to glimpse the true nature of God. The book counsels a young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellection (faculty of the human mind), but through intense contemplation, motivated by love, and stripped of all thought. This is brought about by putting all thoughts and desires under a "cloud of forgetting," and thereby piercing God's cloud of unknowing with a "dart of longing love" from the heart. This form of contemplation is not directed by the intellect, but involves spiritual union with God through the heart.

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by Anonymous Full Book and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one's mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God.

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The Cloud of Unknowing (Annotated)

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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing (Annotated) PDF by Anonymous Full Book and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 "cloud of unknowing" separates people from...

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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ISBN : 0060737751
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Download and Read The Cloud of Unknowing PDF by HarperCollins Spiritual Classics Full Book and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an anonymous English monk during the late fourteenth century, The Cloud of Unknowing is a sublime expression of what separates God from humanity and is widely regarded as a hallmark of Western literature and spirituality. A work of simplicity, courage, and lucidity, it is a contemplative classic on the deep mysteries of faith. "Lift up your heart to God with a humble impulse of love and have himself as your aim, not any of his goods ... Set yourself to rest in this darkness, always crying out after him whom you love. For if you are to experience him or to see him at all, insofar as it is possible here, it must always be in this cloud and in this darkness." –– The Cloud of Unknowing

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The Tradition of Catholic Prayer

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ISBN : 9780814631843
Pages : 320 pages
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Download and Read The Tradition of Catholic Prayer PDF by Christian Raab Full Book and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: In this book the monks of St. Meinrad recount the tradition of Catholic prayer. In the early chapters they explore prayer chronologically, from Old Testament psalms, New Testament models, and early church theologies, through the period of the Counter-Reformation. The central chapters look at prayer in the communal contexts of the Mass, the Liturgical Year, and the Liturgy of the Hours. Final chapters shed more light on particular topics that deepen our understanding of the Catholic imagination and the place of prayer in the lives of the faithful.

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Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts

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ISBN : 9781843840497
Pages : 242 pages
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Download and Read Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts PDF by Dee Dyas Full Book and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material. This volume seeks to explore the origins, context and content of the anchoritic and mystical texts produced in England during the Middle Ages and to examine the ways in which these texts may be studied and taught today. It foregrounds issues of context and interaction, seeking both to position medieval spiritual writings against a surprisingly wide range of contemporary contexts and to face the challenge of making these texts accessible to a wider readership. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field, incorporate historical, literary and theological perspectives and offer critical approaches and background material which will inform both research and teaching. The approaches to Middle English anchoritic and mystical texts suggested in this volume are many and varied. In this they reflect the richness and complexity of the contexts from which these writings emerged. These essays are offered aspart of an ongoing exploration of aspects of medieval spirituality which, while posing a considerable challenge to modern readers, also offer invaluable insights into the interaction between medieval culture and belief. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Santha Bhattachariji, Denis Renevey, A.C. Spearing, Thomas Bestul, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Barry A. Windeatt, Alexandra Barratt, R.S. Allen, Roger Ellis, Ann M. Hutchison, Marion Glasscoe, Catherine Innes-Parker