Description: The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counselling(Early English Text Society Original Series)Edited by PHYLLIS HODGSONPublished by Early English Text Society, 1973. Good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, some notes and underlining to text. Illustrated frontis, 8vo. 231 pages. 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.” Loc: E13StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackCHRISTIAN MYSTICISM 5th Century MEDIEVAL LITERATURE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING GOD LATIN The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counselling(Early English Text Society Original Series)Edited by PHYLLIS HODGSONPublished by Early English Text Society, 1973. Good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, some notes and underlining to text. Illustrated frontis, 8vo. 231 pages. 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.” Loc: E13
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Original Language: English
Type: Hardcover
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Edition: HARDCOVER
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Era: 1970s
Book Title: Liber Celestis of St. Bridget of Sweden : The Middle English Version in British Library MS Claudius B I, Together with a Life of the Saint from the Same ManuscriptVolume I: Text
Number of Pages: 516 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Early English Text Society (E E TS)
Topic: Mysticism, Ancient & Classical
Item Height: 1.6 in
Publication Year: 1988
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 26.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Roger Ellis
Item Width: 5.6 in
Book Series: Early English Text Society/Original Ser.
Format: Hardcover
