The cloud of unknowing
By: edited and modernized by Bernard Bangley.
Series: Paraclete Essentials edition
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brewster, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557256690
Subjects: Mysticism
Notes: Originally published: Brewster, Mass. : Paraclete Press, c2006.  With new foreword.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Robert Benson; title: Introduction; title: Prayer; title: Preface; title: Four degrees of Christian living; title: Spiritual preparation; title: A superior discipline; title: Knowledge and imagination; title: The cloud of forgetting; title: A brief dialogue; title: Intellectual curiosity; title: Regarding uncertainties; title: Contemplative prayer; title: Discernment; title: Evaluating thoughts; title: Results of contemplation; title: Perfect and imperfect humility; title: Begin with imperfect humility; title: Understanding humility; title: Contemplative humility; title: A critical world; title: Ignorance; title: Complaining; title: God responds; title: The text; title: Love and contemplation; title: God's spiritual provision; title: Contemplative love; title: Details; title: When difficult prayer becomes possible; title: Who should attempt contemplation?; title: Begin by seeking forgiveness; title: Endurance; title: Critics; title: Beginners and temptation; title: Spiritual devices; title: Perfect rest; title: God's gift; title: Reading, reflection, and prayer; title: Meditation; title: Special prayers; title: Why short prayers pierce heaven; title: The nature of prayer; title: Forgetting virtue and vice; title: Contemplation and indiscretion; title: Indiscretion produces discretion; title: Forgetting the self; title: Suppressing the self; title: Spiritual illusions; title: Spiritual enthusiasm; title: Approaching god; title: Physical aspects of prayer; title: Essence of perfection; title: Pure love; title: Misinterpretation; title: Beginners' mistakes; title: Outward behavior; title: Controlling the body; title: Condemning others; title: Common sense and common doctrine; title: Presumptuous beginners; title: Forcing imagination; title: Time, place, and prayer; title: Desire; title: Spirit and flesh; title: Understanding spiritual activity; title: Mind; title: Reason and will; title: Imagination; title: Sensuality; title: The spiritual way; title: Nowhere is everywhere; title: Nothingness and love; title: Comprehending God; title: Variety of experience; title: Differences; title: Contributions; title: Recognition; title: Certainty.