Table of contents for The darkness of God : negativity in Christian mysticism / Denys Turner.


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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Two Sources and a Synthesis: 1. The allegory and Exodus
2. Cataphatic and the apophatic in Denys the Areopagite
3. The God within: Augustine's Confessions
4. Interiority and ascent: Augustine's De Trinitate
5. Hierarchy interiorised: Bonaventure's Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
Part II. Developments: 6. Eckhart: God and the self
7. Eckhart: detachment and the critique of desire
8. The Cloud of Unknowing and the critique of interiority
9. Denys the Carthusian and the problem of experience
10. John of the Cross: the dark nights and depression
11. From mystical theology to mysticism
Further reading
Index.


Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Mysticism History Middle Ages, 600-1500, Language and languages Religious aspects Christianity, Negativity (Philosophy) Neoplatonism, Psychology, Religious