The Cloud of Unknowing
Unlike many mystics, who celebrate ¿ecstasies, visions, voices, the scent of strange perfumes, [and] the hearing of sweet sounds,¿ he believed that the key to a closer relationship with God required private thought and prayer, and the elimination of all other distractions. He distrusted ¿psychic phenomena,¿ believing they were ¿the accidents rather than the substance of the contemplative life,¿ and quite possibly the work of the Devil. He felt that such hallucinations led only to self-deception and brought the believer no closer to God. Humorous at times, and written in plain English, The Cloud of Unknowing is intended…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60206-498-0
- EAN: 9781602064980
- Produktnummer: 3002114
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 164 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.9 cm 216 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 216
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