The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works - Pengu... - PENGUIN GROUP - UK, A. Spearin
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works - Pengu... - PENGUIN GROUP - UK, A. Spearin In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and…
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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works - Pengu... - PENGUIN GROUP - UK, A. Spearin
In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Drawing upon radically different traditions, it is a rich work full of intriguing contradictions that speaks to us with liveliness and wit even today. Many of these works focused on Christ's Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language.
The unknown author, thought to be a priest and Carthusian monk, is also believed to have written the other three works in this volume: The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer, which, together with The Cloud of Unknowing, are the four texts at the core of medieval mystical theology.This Penguin Classics edition includes full explanatory notes, suggestions