The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Penguin Classics)

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Penguin Classics)

In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ's Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language. Drawing upon radically different traditions, it is a rich work full of intriguing contradictions that speaks to us with liveliness and wit even today. The unknown author, thought to be a priest and Carthusian monk, is also believed to have written the other three works in this volume: The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer, which, together with The Cloud of Unknowing, are the four texts at the core of medieval mystical theology.

This Penguin Classics edition includes full explanatory notes, suggestions for further reading, an appendix that reproduces the Middle English text of a section of The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, and an introduction that places the texts within the context of medieval religious writing.

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Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Books Ltd
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780140447620
ReleaseDate 2002-01-29
EANs 9780140447620

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Books Ltd
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780140447620
ReleaseDate	2002-01-29
EANs	9780140447620

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Penguin Classics)

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