The darkness of God: negativity in Christian mysticism

Unknown author

346 citations0/0 files storedChoice Reviews Online

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Medieval Philosophy and Theology Medieval Literature and History Karl Barth and Christian Theology

Abstract

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Two Sources and a Synthesis: 1. The allegory and Exodus 2. Cataphatic and the apophatic in Denys the Areopagite 3. The God within: Augustine's Confessions 4. Interiority and ascent: Augustine's De Trinitate 5. Hierarchy interiorised: Bonaventure's Itinerarium Mentis in Deum Part II. Developments: 6. Eckhart: God and the self 7. Eckhart: detachment and the critique of desire 8. The Cloud of Unknowing and the critique of interiority 9. Denys the Carthusian and the problem of experience 10. John of the Cross: the dark nights and depression 11. From mystical theology to mysticism Further reading Index.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 346 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2004Faith, Reason and the Existence of God 2001Spiritual Discipline, Discipline of Spirituality: Revisiting Questions of Definition and Method 2009The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy 2004The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition 2001The Language of Inner Experience in Christian Mysticism 2020A Philosophy of Madness 2016Mystical Experience and the Apophatic Attitude 2005A Sociological History of Christian Worship

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.