The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism

For the medieval 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 center, and contemporary readers are inclined to misunderstand the medieval tradition in experientialist terms. Denys Turner argues that the distinctiveness and contemporary relevance of medieval mysticism lies precisely in its rejection of mystical experience, and locates 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.

Author: Denys Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/05/1998
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.03w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780521645614

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