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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465541071
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A Book of Contemplation written by Evelyn Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Johnston
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0307809056
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by William Johnston and published by Image. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486829766
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by 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.
Author : Walter Hilton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0982330189
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Walter Hilton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The complete unabridged text, re-edited for today's reader."
Author : Justin McCann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Treatises by an English Mystic of the Fourteenth Century written by Justin McCann and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Unknown Authors
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849676765
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book The Cloud Of Unknowing written by Unknown Authors and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism originating in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The mystical scripture draws on the tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form.
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Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612617174
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Complete Cloud of Unknowing written by and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the Christian mystical tradition is the inspired work of the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing. Rich with insights and perceptions of the obscurity and “unknowability” of God, this work reveals God as being on an entirely different plane of existence from human beings—so different that time-bound human language is inadequate to describe God exhaustively or accurately. Intellect and emotion both fail in seeking God, who can only be encountered by rejecting all common earthly means in a “cloud of forgetting” and the discovery of Godself in the dark “cloud of unknowing” that can be pierced only with a “lance of longing love.” Now, we finally have a translation that captures all of this beauty and complexity, without minimizing the nuances, all of which are explained with extensive introductions and accompanying notes. "If I could keep with me only two books and a journal, this book would be one of the books. As far as I’m concerned it’s the most important book (and among the most influential) on Christian prayer in the last two millennia. I'm delighted to endorse this fine new translation and commentary.”—The Rev. Dr. Chris Neufeld-Erdman, University Presbyterian Church, Fresno, CA , author of Beyond Chaos: Living the Christian Family in a World Like Ours and Returning to the Center: Living Prayer in a Distracting World "The Complete Cloud of Unknowing includes two classics of medieval Christian contemplative spirituality — essential reading for anyone seeking to deepen their relationship with God through the practice of silent prayer. They are rich texts, full of nuanced wisdom that often gets lost in modern translations. Father John-Julian has captured the beauty, humor and literary elegance of the original versions, but also has supplemented his translation with detailed notes that convey the subtle spiritual insight that makes these works required reading. I'm excited about this book — it's a title I will recommend both to beginners and to longstanding students of The Cloud.” —Carl McColman, author of Answering the Contemplative Call and The Lion, the Mouse and the Dawn Treader
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : CCEL
ISBN 13 : 1931848181
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Anonymous and published by CCEL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141907592
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 208 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.
Author : Mishtooni Bose
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840221268
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Cloud of Unknowing written by Mishtooni Bose and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated with an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose
Author : William Johnston
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531510892
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing written by William Johnston and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers In this comparative work, Jesuit priest and Zen meditation advocate William Johnston offers a contemporary reading of the fourteenth-century Christian mystical work The Cloud of Unknowing and its powerful message of God's unconditional love in the face of despair.
Author : Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611803144
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Heart of Centering Prayer written by Cynthia Bourgeault and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Yahia Lababidi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725264943
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Revolutions of the Heart written by Yahia Lababidi and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutions of the Heart is a genre-bending book where literature, social activism, and mysticism intersect. In this follow-up to Lababidi's first essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing (2010), the author is undergoing an inner change, as is the world around him. The multifaceted meditations in Revolutions—essays, poems, aphorisms, conversations, and even fiction—explore the edifying power of art, Islamophobia and its antidotes, the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath, American popular culture, and much else in our complex modern world. A series of rich conversations with Lababidi, and his various provocative interlocutors, shed more intimate light on the subjects under discussion. At times serious, playful, and seriously playful, these exuberant exchanges chart the personal evolution of Lababidi from angst-ridden existentialist thinker, besotted with the life of the mind, to someone chastened, drawn to Sufism and seeking to surrender before the primacy of spiritual life. On a political level, as the work of an immigrant and Muslim (living in Trump's divided America and our wounded world), Revolutions is a book of hope and healing, arguing for nuance and compassion, as it attempts to present art as a form of cultural diplomacy and tool for transformation.
Author : Louis F. Groarke
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 177048678X
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Readings in Ethics written by Louis F. Groarke and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Ethics offers a vast collection of carefully edited readings arranged chronologically across five historical periods. The selections cover many major Western and non-Western schools of thought, including Daoism, virtue ethics, Buddhism, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, contractarianism, liberalism, Marxism, feminism, and communitarianism. In addition to texts from canonical philosophers such as Plato, Mill, Wollstonecraft, and Rawls, the volume draws from other sources of wisdom: stories, fables, proverbs, medieval mystical treatises, literature, and poetry. The editors have also written substantial introductions, annotations, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading, making for a thorough guided tour of our ethical past and present.
Author : Annice Callahan
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761808497
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Evelyn Underhill written by Annice Callahan and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Evelyn Underhill's spirituality for daily living by describing aspects of her life and writings that are relevant for contemporary Christians in their daily living. It combines scholarly research and pastoral applications. The first part focuses on three influences on her life: experiences and images, her study of the mystics, and her work with spiritual guides. The second part discusses Underhill's spirituality for daily living based on a study of her letters, retreats, and other spiritual writings. The third part presents her legacy for the third millennium: her study of mysticism, her spiritual guidance, and her spirituality for daily living. This work highlights aspects of her life with which readers may identify, for example: her own return to the Anglican communion after fourteen years; her ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox church and her lifelong attraction to the mystical and sacramental aspect of Roman Catholicism; her study of Sufi mystics bringing her into interfaith dialogue; her pacifist stance in World War II; and her prophetic contribution to the Anglican church as a woman spiritual director, retreat preacher, theologian, spiritual writer, and spiritual resource for today.
Author : David G. Robinson
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1640604367
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Cloud Devotion written by David G. Robinson and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal invitation to walk with God through of the great classics of Christian spirituality. This book of daily devotions is based upon The Cloud of Unknowing. In this edition Robinson sought to remain as true as possible to the voice of this medieval classic. Cloud Devotion follows the original Middle English text sentence by sentence, with Robinson’s own translation and paraphrase, divided work into 366 small portions, with a Scripture passage related to the theme from each daily reading. “My heart has yearned for this book. I wanted a guide to help me savor and reflect on the spiritual classic The Cloud of Unknowing. David has insightfully discerned how we might do this. The partnership of this unknown, ancient writer and this known, living pastor is masterful. I invite you into the clouds with the slow reading of this book.” —Dr. MaryKate Morse, author and mentor-professor of formation and leadership
