Denys Turner (University of Birmingham)

The Darkness of God

Negativity in Christian Mysticism

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Produktbeschreibung

Denys Turner argues that the distinctiveness and contemporary relevance of medieval mysticism lies in its rejection of 'mystical experience', and locates the mystical within the grasp of the everyday.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780521645614
• ISBN-10: 0521645611
• Artikelnr.: 21494061

Inhaltsangabe

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.