Cover of Carmen Acevedo Butcher (TRN): The Cloud of Unknowing

Carmen Acevedo Butcher (TRN) The Cloud of Unknowing

With the Book of Privy Counsel

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Book information

Shambhala Pubns

USA

2009

1

Paperback

276

Standard

281567

978-1-59030-622-2

1-59030-622-8

Mysticism; History; Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Annotation

This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom while remaining strictly faithful to the meaning of the original Middle English. "The Cloud of Unknowing" consists of a series of letters written by a monk to his student or disciple, instructing him (or her) in the way of Divine union. Its theology is presented in a way that is remarkably easy to understand, as well as practical, providing advice on prayer and contemplation that anyone can use. Previous translations of the "Cloud" have tended to veil its intimate, even friendly tone under medieval-sounding language. Carmen Butcher has boldly brought the text into language as appealing to modern ears as it was to its original readers more than five hundred years ago.

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