The Cloud of Unknowing
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Written by an anonymous English monk during the late fourteenth century, The Cloud of Unknowing puts forth a method of contemplation that stresses the importance of the understanding to break through the cloud of unknowing that separates God and humanity. This work is useful for understanding the various streams of thought regarding mysticism in church history.
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Key Features
- Explains mysticism as a way to navigate the hiddenness of God
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- Focuses on the nature of God and the means of approaching him
Top Highlights
“you must put beneath you a cloud of forgetting, between you and all the creatures that have ever been made.60” (Page 128)
“Lift up your heart to God28 with a humble impulse of love; and have himself as your aim, not any of his goods” (Page 119)
“In itself, humility is nothing else but a man’s true understanding and awareness of himself as he really is.” (Page 148)
“the essence of this exercise is nothing else but a simple and direct reaching out to God for himself” (Page 169)
“It is the union of our naked being with the naked being of God that anchors our whole life.” (Page xx)
About the Translator
James Walsh is a translator who has also worked on a Paulist Press edition of The Cloud of Unknowing.