Cloud of Unknowing

by Anonymous

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Some things never change, including the human need to connect with our creator. Prayer and meditation on the divine are techniques that have been used for millennia to grow in the knowledge of God. Cloud of Unknowing documents techniques used by the medieval monastic community to build and maintain that contemplative knowledge of God. Scholars date the anonymous authorship of Cloud of Unknowing to 1375, during the height of European monasticism. Written as a primer for the young monastic, the work is instructional, but does not have an austere didactic tone. Rather, the work embraces the reader with a maternal call to grow closer to God through meditation and prayer. -Andrew Hanson, CCEL Intern
  • ISBN10 1931848181
  • ISBN13 9781931848183
  • Publish Date 17 August 2010 (first published 30 June 1922)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  • Format eBook
  • Language English