[PDF.95aj] The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism

The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism

[PDF.eb84] The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism

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 | #620505 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1998-11-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.67 x5.98l,.94 | File type: PDF | 292 pages

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||42 of 42 people found the following review helpful.| Thought-provoking historical analysis of Christian mysticism|By Kim Boykin|This book is a history of some important metaphors in Western (as opposed to Orthodox) Christian mysticism: darkness and light, interiority, and ascent. Turner traces these metaphors from the Hebraic and Greek traditions (specifically, Moses' encounter with God on Mt. Sinai and Plato's "Allegory of the| |"This book lives up to its dust-jacket billing as a `timely and important' and `exciting' book..." Theological Studies

"[Turner's] prose is clear and precise, and he has a gift for finding good analogical examples for explaining difficult distinct

For the medieval 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" at the center, and contemporary readers are inclined to misunderstand the medieval tradition in "experientialist" terms. Denys Turner argues that the distinctiveness and contemporary relevance of med...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism   |  Denys Turner. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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