The salmon of knowlegde, "The cloud of unknowing", and other accounts of instant Knowing
This article considers the fourteenth-century treatise The Cloud of Unknowing as a description of instant, non-sensory cognition. The text has an ostensibly particular function as an instruction manual in Christian contemplation, but bears on a universal experience, that of quickly knowing without k...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2016]
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Studies in spirituality
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Pages: 217-248 |
| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy |
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Cognitive Science
B Cloud of unknowing B Flesh (Theology) B Science and religion B Peer reviewed B Ethnology B Cognition B Intuition B Spirit B Insight B Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) B Mysticism 0600-1500 B Body and soul B Body, Human (Philosophy) |
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