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The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, [2] which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form.
During this time, Meninger came across a work by an English hermit of the 14th century, called the Cloud of Unknowing. Meninger found that it taught contemplative prayer in a simple way available to anyone. He began to teach this method to the younger monks of the abbey and to the retreatants who had come to it for a period of spiritual reflection.
The method formed as a direct result of the experiences reading the Cloud of Unknowing by the community at the Trappist St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts where three brothers in particular helped the method come into being; those brothers were: Fr. William Meninger, Fr. M. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating.
For instance, “The Cloud of Unknowing,” a spiritual work of the 1300s by an anonymous mystic, argues something similar — that our spiritual lives remain shrouded in a sort of opaque mist ...
Hodgson edited the works of The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counselling, originally for the Early English Text Society in 1944, extensively revising them in her retirement. She also edited the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales [3] and The Franklin's Tale. [4]
Keating was born in New York City in March 1923 and attended Deerfield Academy, Yale University, and Fordham University.. In 1984 Keating, along with Gustave Reininger and Edward Bednar, co-founded Contemplative Outreach, Ltd., an international and ecumenical spiritual network that teaches the practice of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina, a method of prayer drawn from the Christian ...
The Cloud of Unknowing is a 14th-century guidebook by an anonymous English monk. The Cloud of Unknowing may also refer to: Rashḥ-i-ʻAmá ("Sprinkling of the Cloud of Unknowing"), first known text of Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith; The title of one of the sections in the 1997 novel by Don DeLillo, Underworld
Methley produced a Latin glossed translation of The Cloud of Unknowing in 1491 for his fellow Carthusian Thurstan Watson. He also then began a Latin glossed translation of the Middle English version of The Mirror of Simple Souls , though he was unaware that the work had been written by the executed heretic Marguerite Porete . [ 5 ]