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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Cloud of Unknowing"”.
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The Work of Contemplation Then and Now: The Cloud of Unknowing and Present-Day Christian Mystical Practice
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous fourteenth-century Middle English mystical text that discusses what its author calls the “work” of contemplation. In the late twentieth century, the Cloud became an important resource for two Christian contemplative movements that go by the names of “Centering …
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My lover, my god: the role of gender in the mystical theology of The Cloud of Unknowing
The fourteenth-century mystical text, The Cloud of Unknowing, has received much scholarly attention through the years, yet scholars rarely take notice of the role of gender in the Cloud-author's theology. The text may be written by a male priest to a presumably male novice, but we can in no way …
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The End of the Age of Miracles: Substance and Accident in the English Renaissance
… At the same time dramatists at the turn of the seventeenth century undermine 'realism' altogether, contributing to the emergence of a new meaning of 'realism' as mimesis, and with it a materialism without immanent forms. My theoretical framework is provided by Aristotle's Metaphysics, …