{"product_id":"cloud-unknowing-william-johnston-0385030975","title":"The Cloud of Unknowing by William Johnston","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Cloud of Unknowing\u003c\/u\u003e: And The Book of Privy Counseling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cloud of Unknowing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Privy Counseling\u003c\/i\u003e are the first explorations in the English language of the soul’s quest for God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten in Middle English by an unknown fourteenth-century mystic, \u003ci\u003eThe Cloud of Unknowing\u003c\/i\u003e expresses with beauty a message that has inspired such great religious thinkers as St. John of the Cross and Teilhard de Chardin, as well as countless others in search of God.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffering a practical guide to the life of contemplation, the author explains that ordinary thoughts and earthly concepts must be buried beneath a “cloud of forgetting,” while our love must rise toward a God hidden in the “cloud of unknowing.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Privy Counseling\u003c\/i\u003e, also included in this volume, is a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and a consciousness only of the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eWilliam Johnston, an authority on fourteenth-century mysticism and spirituality, provides an accessible discussion of the works, detailing what is known about the history of the texts and their author.\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\"\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48528349364539,"sku":"0385030975","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/0385030975.jpg?v=1737017465","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/cloud-unknowing-william-johnston-0385030975","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}