A Little Book of Unknowing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Little Book of Unknowing write by Jennifer Kavanagh. This book was released on 2015-03-27. A Little Book of Unknowing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What if the facts on which we base our lives are shown to be unreliable? What if our expectations are confounded? What if we let go of those assumptions and expectations? What if we let go of our familiar, habitual ways of thinking? What if we let go of the very need to know? Unknowing is at the centre of spiritual life. It is only by creating a space in which anything can happen that we allow God to speak; only by stepping back that we allow space for that unpredictable Spirit that brings us gifts beyond any of our imaginings... "God dwells only where man steps back to give him room."
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cloud of Unknowing write by William Johnston. This book was released on 2012-01-11. The Cloud of Unknowing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING and THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING are the first explorations in the English language of the soul’s quest for God. Written in Middle English by an unknown fourteenth-century mystic, THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING expresses with beauty a message that has inspired such great religious thinkers as St. John of the Cross and Teilhard de Chardin, as well as countless others in search of God. Offering a practical guide to the life of contemplation, the author explains that ordinary thoughts and earthly concepts must be buried beneath a “cloud of forgetting,” while our love must rise toward a God hidden in the “cloud of unknowing.” THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING, also included in this volume, is a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and a consciousness only of the divine. William Johnston, an authority on fourteenth-century mysticism and spirituality, provides an accessible discussion of the works, detailing what is known about the history of the texts and their author. In a new foreword, Huston Smith draws on his extensive knowledge of the varieties of religious experience to illuminate the relevance of these works for contemporary readers.
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works write by . This book was released on 2001-08-30. The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language. These four texts are at the heart of medival mystical theology in their call for contemplation, calm, and above all, love, as the way to understand the Divine.
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cloud of Unknowing write by Anonymous. This book was released on . The Cloud of Unknowing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Valley of Unknowing
The Valley of Unknowing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Valley of Unknowing write by Philip Sington. This book was released on 2012-12-03. The Valley of Unknowing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of a two-decades-old, but world-famous, novel in the last days of Communist East Germany is asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript that has dangerous political overtones, putting himself and his young lover in danger.
