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The Cloud of Unknowing
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A mystical classic now easier to understand
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Very few spiritual classics from centuries past offer real guidance for entering into the darkness and light of Christian mysticism. Notoriously difficult to understand, this contemporary English translation of one of the most popular texts from the late Middle Ages is different: It offers an accessible invitation to the reader to enter into an engagement with God, through this "cloud of unknowing."
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Mystical concepts are explained in everyday language. Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century author, The Cloud of Unknowing was originally prepared for cloistered monks. Yet it has found centuries of readers from all walks of life. Each brief chapter offers the spiritual seeker a way to enter into the life of prayer and appeals to the reader's common sense in beginning steps on the path to knowing a God beyond all knowing. A foreword by bestselling author, Robert Benson, special to this edition, helps to put this classic text within reach of everyday Christians.
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Very few spiritual classics from centuries past offer real guidance for entering into the darkness and light of Christian mysticism. Notoriously difficult to understand, this contemporary English translation of one of the most popular texts from the late Middle Ages is different: It offers an accessible invitation to the reader to enter into an engagement with God, through this "cloud of unknowing."
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Mystical concepts are explained in everyday language. Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century author, The Cloud of Unknowing was originally prepared for cloistered monks. Yet it has found centuries of readers from all walks of life. Each brief chapter offers the spiritual seeker a way to enter into the life of prayer and appeals to the reader's common sense in beginning steps on the path to knowing a God beyond all knowing. A foreword by bestselling author, Robert Benson, special to this edition, helps to put this classic text within reach of everyday Christians.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Prayer
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - Four Degrees of Christian Living
- Chapter 2 - Spiritual Preparation
- Chapter 3 - A Superior Discipline
- Chapter 4 - Knowledge and Imagination
- Chapter 5 - The Cloud of Forgetting
- Chapter 6 - A Brief Dialogue
- Chapter 7 - Intellectual Curiosity
- Chapter 8 - Regarding Uncertainties
- Chapter 9 - Contemplative Prayer
- Chapter 10 - Discernment
- Chapter 11 - Evaluating Thoughts
- Chapter 12 - Results of Contemplation
- Chapter 13 - Perfect and Imperfect Humility
- Chapter 14 - Begin with Imperfect Humility
- Chapter 15 - Understanding Humility
- Chapter 16 - Contemplative Humility
- Chapter 17 - A Critical World
- Chapter 18 - Ignorance
- Chapter 19 - Complaining
- Chapter 20 - God Responds
- Chapter 21 - The Text
- Chapter 22 - Love and Contemplation
- Chapter 23 - God’s Spiritual Provision
- Chapter 24 - Contemplative Love
- Chapter 25 - Details
- Chapter 26 - When Difficult Prayer Becomes Possible
- Chapter 27 - Who should Attempt Contemplation?
- Chapter 28 - Begin by Seeking Forgiveness
- Chapter 29 - Endurance
- Chapter 30 - Critics
- Chapter 31 - Beginners and Temptation
- Chapter 32 - Spiritual Devices
- Chapter 33 - Perfect Rest
- Chapter 34 - God’s Gift
- Chapter 35 - Reading, Reflection, and Prayer
- Chapter 36 - Meditation
- Chapter 37 - Special Prayers
- Chapter 38 - Why Short Prayers Pierce Heaven
- Chapter 39 - The Nature of Prayer
- Chapter 40 - Forgetting Virtue and Vice
- Chapter 41 - Contemplation and Indiscretion
- Chapter 42 - Indiscretion Produces Discretion
- Chapter 43 - Forgetting the Self
- Chapter 44 - Suppressing the Self
- Chapter 45 - Spiritual Illusions
- Chapter 46 - Spiritual Enthusiasm
- Chapter 47 - Approaching God
- Chapter 48 - Physical Aspects of Prayer
- Chapter 49 - Essence of Perfection
- Chapter 50 - Pure Love
- Chapter 51 - Misinterpretation
- Chapter 52 - Beginners’ Mistakes
- Chapter 53 - Outward Behavior
- Chapter 54 - Controlling the Body
- Chapter 55 - Condemning Others
- Chapter 56 - Common Sense and Common Doctrine
- Chapter 57 - Presumptuous Beginners
- Chapter 58 - Forcing Imagination
- Chapter 59 - Time, Place, and Prayer
- Chapter 60 - Desire
- Chapter 61 - Spirit and Flesh
- Chapter 62 - Understanding Spiritual Activity
- Chapter 63 - Mind
- Chapter 64 - Reason and Will
- Chapter 65 - Imagination
- Chapter 66 - Sensuality
- Chapter 67 - The Spiritual Way
- Chapter 68 - Nowhere is Everywhere
- Chapter 69 - Nothingness and Love
- Chapter 70 - Comprehending God
- Chapter 71 - Variety of Experience
- Chapter 72 - Differences
- Chapter 73 - Contributions
- Chapter 74 - Recognition
- Chapter 75 - Certainty
- Appendix
- Essay on the Cloud of Unknowing: by Evelyn Underhill