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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Denys, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.