The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel by Acevedo Butcher, Carmen

The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel

This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and...
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Author: Carmen Acevedo Butcher
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The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel by Acevedo Butcher, Carmen

The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel

$46.96

The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel

$46.96
Author: Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Also included in the volume is the companion work attributed to the same anonymous author, The Book of Privy Counsel, which contains further advice for approaching God in a way that emphasizes real experience rather than human knowledge.

Author: Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 04/14/2009
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.48w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781590306222

About the Author
Carmen Acevedo Butcher is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Shorter College, Rome, Georgia, where she is also Scholar-in-Residence. She has published numerous translations of Christian mystical classics, including Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader, Man of Blessing: A Life of Benedict, Incandescence: 365 Readings with Women Mystics, and A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics.

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