{"product_id":"cloud-of-unknowing-5","title":"Cloud of Unknowing","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the writings of St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and other theologians across centuries of Christian mystical traditions, the anonymous, fourteenth-century spiritual guide known as \u003cem\u003eThe Cloud of Unknowing \u003c\/em\u003einvites Christian readers to develop a stronger, more intimate relationship with God through intense contemplation and the abandonment of all mental images or concepts that are not God. Only after abandoning the intellect and the imagination can one then encounter a “nothing and a nowhere” that leads to the mysterious and unfathomable being of God himself, beyond the capacity of mental conception and without definitive image or form. Distilling a complex mystical theology and practice into engaging and approachable prose, \u003cem\u003eThe Cloud of Unknowing \u003c\/em\u003ereflects a larger trend in medieval Christianity toward a more individual, passionate religious experience of God while achieving a directness and simplicity uncharacteristic of even the most popular examples of fourteenth-century Middle English mystical literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Medieval Institute Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263250354520,"sku":"9781879288898","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781879288898.jpg?v=1779549314","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cloud-of-unknowing-5","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}