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Turner, Denys, 1942-

The darkness of God : negativity in Christian mysticism / Denys Turner. - Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995. - x, 278 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-275) and index.

The Allegory and Exodus -- Cataphatic and the apophatic in Denys the Areopagite -- The God within: Augustine's Confessions -- Interiority and ascent: Augustine's De Trinitate -- Hierarchy interiorised: Bonaventure's Itinerarium Mentis in Deum -- Eckhart: God and the self -- Eckhart: detachment and the critique of desire -- The Cloud of Unknowing and the critique of interiority -- Denys the Carthusian and the problem of experience -- John of the Cross: the dark nights and depression -- From mystical theology to mysticism. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

ISBN: 0521453178 (hbk.)

LCCN: 94049980

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Language and languages--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Negativity (Philosophy)
Neoplatonism.
Psychology, Religious.

LC Class. No.: BV5083 / .T87 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 248.2/2/0902