The darkness of God : negativity in Christian mysticism /
"For the mediaeval mystical tradition, the Christian soul meets God in a 'cloud of unknowing', a divine darkness of ignorance. This meeting with God is beyond all knowing and beyond all experiencing. Mysticisms of the modern period, on the contrary, place 'mystical experience...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- The allegory and Exodus
- Cataphatic and the apophatic in Denys the Areopagite
- The God within : Augustine's Confessions
- Interiority and ascent : Augustine's De trinitate
- Hierarchy interiorised : Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in Deum
- Eckhart : God and the self
- Eckhart : detachment and the critique of desire
- The cloud of unknowing and the critique of interiority
- Denys the Carthusian and the problem of experience
- John of the Cross : the dark nights and depression
- From myustical theology to mysticism.
