The darkness of God : negativity in Christian mysticism / Denys Turner.
By: Turner, Denys
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: x, 278 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521453178 (hardback)Subject(s): Mysticism | Negative theology | Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 | Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Negativity (Philosophy) | Neoplatonism | Psychology, ReligiousDDC classification: 248.2/2/0902 LOC classification: BV5083 | .T87 1995Online resources: Sample text | Table of contents | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-275) and index.
The allegory and Exodus -- Cataphatic and the apophatic in Denys the Areopagite -- The God within : Augustine's Confessions -- Interiority and ascent : Augustine's De trinitate -- Hierarchy interiorised : Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in Deum -- Eckhart : God and the self -- Eckhart : detachment and the critique of desire -- The cloud of unknowing and the critique of interiority -- Denys the Carthusian and the problem of experience -- John of the Cross : the dark nights and depression -- From myustical theology to mysticism.
"For the mediaeval 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 centre, and contemporary readers are inclined to misunderstand the mediaeval tradition in 'experientialist' terms. Denys Turner argues that the distinctiveness and contemporary relevance of mediaeval mysticism is precisely in its rejection of 'mystical experience',. and locate the mystical firmly within the grasp of the ordinary and the everyday. The argument covers some central authorities in the period from Augustine to John of the Cross.
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