Complete Cloud of Unknowing, The: With the Letter of Privy Counsel (Paraclete Giants Series)

Name: Complete Cloud of Unknowing, The: With the Letter of Privy Counsel (Paraclete Giants Series)
SKU: 9781612616209
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by John Julian

Paperback|Apr 2015

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Paraclete Giants

The Christian mystical tradition has its roots in Holy Scripture but was enunciated most clearly by the late 5th century author writing under the name Dionysius the Areopagite. It was acquaintance with the medieval version of that work which...

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The Christian mystical tradition has its roots in Holy Scripture but was enunciated most clearly by the late 5th century author writing under the name Dionysius the Areopagite. It was acquaintance with the medieval version of that work which inspired the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing and led him to develop his insights and perceptions of the obscurity and "unknowability" of God. His understanding was that God was on an entirely different plane of existence from human beings--indeed, so different that time-bound human language was inadequate to describe God exhaustively or accurately. Intellect and emotion both fail in seeking God, who can only be encountered by rejecting of all common earthly means in a "cloud of forgetting" and the discovery of Godself in the dark "cloud of unknowing" which can be pierced only with a "lance of longing love."

PRODUCT DETAIL

Catalogue Code 446655
Product Code 9781612616209
ISBN 1612616208
EAN 9781612616209
Pages 340
Department Academic
Category Classic
Sub-Category General
Publisher Paraclete Press
Publication Date Apr 2015
Sales Rank 74326
Dimensions 229 x 152 x 21mm
Weight 0.435kg

John Julian

Father John-Julian, OJN, is an Episcopal priest and monk. He has served parishes in Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, was the founding Dean of the Seminary of the Streets in New York, has taught on the adjunct faculty of the University of Rhode Island and Hampshire College, and served as Director of the Social Service Institute which trained social workers for the State of Connecticut.