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Search - The Cloud of Unknowing: A Book of Contemplation (Forgotten Books)

The Cloud of Unknowing A Book of Contemplation - Forgotten Books
Author: Evelyn Underhill

Book Description: — "The Cloud of Unknowing is a practical spiritual guidebook thought to have been written in the 14th century by an anonymous English monk who counsels a young student to seek God not through knowledge but through love. — The book, which draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, has reputedly insp... more »ired generations of mystical searchers from St. John of the Cross to Teilhard de Chardin. It has been described as Christianity with a Zen outlook, but has also been derided by some as anti-intellectual.

The practical prayer advice contained in The Cloud of Unknowing formed the basis for the practice of centering prayer, a form of Christian meditation developed by Trappist monks William Meninger, Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating in the 1970s." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; Introduction; Glossary; Prayer; Prologue; Of Four Degrees Of Christian Men's Living; And Of The Course Of His Calling That This Book Was Made Unto; A Short Stirring To Meekness, And To The Work Of This Book; How The Work Of This Book Shall Be Wrought, And Of The Worthiness Of It Before All Other Works; Of The Shortness Of This Word, And How It May Not Be Come To By Curiosity Of Wit, Nor By Imagination; That In The Time Of This Word All The Creatures That Ever Have Been, Be Now, Or Ever Shall Be, And All The Works Of Those Same Creatures, Should Be Hid Under The Cloud Of Forgetting; A Short Conceit Of The Work Of This Book, Treated By Question; How A Man Shall Have Him In This Work Against All Thoughts, And Specially Against All Those That Arise Of His Own Curiosity, Of Cunning, And Of Natural Wit; A Good Declaring Of Certain Doubts That May Fall In This Word Treated By Question, In Destroying Of A Man's Own Curiosity, Of Cunning, And Of Natural Wit, And In Distinguishing Of The Degrees And The Parts Of Active Living And Contemplative; That In The Time Of This Work The Remembrance Of The Holiest Creature That Ever God Made Letteth More Than It Profiteth; How A Man Shall Know When His Thought Is No Sin; And If It Be Sin, When It Is Deadly And When It Is Venial; That A Man Should Weigh Each Thought And Each Stirring After That It Is, And Always Eschew Recklessness In Venial Sin; That By virtue Of This Word Sin Is Not Only Destroyed, But Also virtues Begotten; What Meekness Is In Itself, And When It Is Perfect And When It Is Imperfect; That Without Imperfect Meekness Coming Before, It Is Impossible For A Sinner To Come To The Perfect virtue Of Meekness In This Life; A Short Proof Against Their Error That Say, That There Is No Perfecter Cause To Be Meeked Under, Than Is The Knowledge Of A Man's Own Wretchedness; That By virtue Of This Work A Sinner Truly Turned And Called To Contemplation Cometh Sooner To Perfection Than By Any Other Work; And By It Soonest May Get Of God Forgiveness Of Sins; That A Very Contemplative List Not Meddle Him With Active Life, Nor Of Anything That Is Done Or Spoken About Him, Nor Yet To Answer To His Blamers In Excusing Of Himself; How That Yet Unto This Day All Actives Complain Of Contemplatives As Martha Did Of Mary. Of The Which Complaining Ignorance Is The Cause; A Short Excusation Of Him That Made This Book Teaching How All Contemplatives Should Have All Actives Fully Excused Of Their Complaining Words And Deeds; How Almighty God Will Goodly Answer For All Those That For The Excusing Of Themselves List Not Leave Their Business About The Love Of Him; The True Exposition Of This Gospel Word, "mary Hath Chosen The Best Part"; Of The Wonderful Love That Christ Had To Man In Person Of All Sinners Truly Turned And Called To The Grace Of Contemplation; How God Will Answer And Purvey For Them In Spirit, That For Business About His Love List Not Answer Nor Purvey For Themselves; What Charity Is In Itself, And How It Is Truly And Perfectly Contained In The Work Of This Book; That In The Time Of This Work A Perfe

ISBN-13: 9781605062280
ISBN-10: 1605062286
Publication Date: 12/5/2007
Pages: 148
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
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