The Unknowability and Imagination in Mystical Doctrines of the Late Medieval English Mysticism

There are three English authors of the fourteenth century we may call “imaginative mystics” because of their use of imagination in spiritual praxis, i.e., Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, and the unknown author of the Cloud of Unknowing. However, recently, there has been some criticism expressed regard...

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Main Author: Rathouzská, Lucie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 7
Further subjects:B unknowability
B Cloud of Unknowing
B Mysticism
B Imagination
B Walter Hilton
B Richard Rolle
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