or by Underhill. Psalms 82:13 Let us possess the
example, William Johnston, Robert Aitken, and Robert Llewelyn have compared the tradition of Zen Buddhist meditation with the practice of contemplative prayer in the Cloud.11. The significance of this attention to practice is underscored by a study in which Maika. Fowler suggests that the Cloud and Zen meditation are
When Father William Meninger left his post in the Diocese of Yakima, Washington in 1963 to from his monastic life to travel the world teaching contemplative prayer as presented in The. Cloud of Unknowing. He also had the bright idea to teach it to his mom once, while she was on her William Johnston's translation.
William Johnston--an authority on fourteenth century spirituality and specifically on the writings of this unknown author--provides a substantive and accessible
"God can be loved but he cannot be thought. He can be grasped by love but never by concepts. So less thinking and more loving." This is William Johnston's summary of the message of The Cloud of Unknowing. Nobody knows who wrote the book, or exactly where he lived, or whether he was a member of a religious order,
27 Jul 2013 Acquainted with numerous translations and editions of The Cloud, I have chosen Carmen Acevedo Butcher's translation, The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel (Boston, Shambhala, 2009) as our text. William Johnston wrote an extensive analysis of the Cloud of Unknowing circa 1967.
The Cloud of Unknowing was the work of an unknown 14th-century English writer with a powerful message of God's unconditional love in the face of despair. Johnston's theological treatment of this and other works by the same writer makes a conscious comparison with Oriental ways of contemplation.
Mystics have groped for words in which to account for the supreme reality of this experience All this is said in classic and unforgettable pages by The Cloud

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