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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
Oct 1, 2024 6:39 PM

Author:A. Spearing,A. Spearing

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

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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at times deeply devout, at times joyfully light-hearted, this is an inspirational milestone for an interreligious decade

—— Pilgrims website

The book is superb... the insights that it opens in a series of varied fields, tying them in logically to each other, is very lucid

—— Howie Firth, Director of the Orkney Science Festival

A symbol of serenity, a spiritual leader second only to the Pope

—— Independent

He draws crowds that no other spiritual leader or politician could hope to match...he seems to look at life in a different way to everyone else

—— The Times
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