Bible Knowledge Graph

Cloud of Unknowing

Entity ID:

cloud-of-unknowing-(anonymous)

Long Name:

Cloud of Unknowing

Short Name:

Cloud of Unknowing

Disambiguation String:

a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer

Entity Type:

work

Entity Subtype:

book

Summary:

Some things never change, including the human need to connect with our creator. Prayer and meditation on the divine are techniques that have been used for millennia to grow in the knowledge of God. Cloud of Unknowing documents techniques used by the medieval monastic community to build and maintain that contemplative knowledge of God. Scholars date the anonymous authorship of Cloud of Unknowing to 1375, during the height of European monasticism. Written as a primer for the young monastic, the work is instructional, but does not have an austere didactic tone. Rather, the work embraces the reader with a maternal call to grow closer to God through meditation and prayer.

Andrew Hanson
CCEL Intern

DB Pedia ID:

The_Cloud_of_Unknowing

Is An Individual:

No

Is Published:

Yes

Original Language:

enm

LCCN:

BV5080.C53

ISBN:

9781931848183

CCEL URL:

//ccel.org/ccel/anonymous2/cloud.html

LC Subjects:

All; Classic; Mysticism; Proofed

Creators:

Creator: Anonymous, Relator: aut, Creator ID: 1937