Dark Night of the Soul

Résumé du livre

Saint John of the Cross' poem narrates the journey of the soul from its bodily home to its union with God. The journey is called "The Dark Night" in part because darkness represents the fact that the destination, God, is unknowable (as in the 14thc. mystic classic The Cloud of Unknowing-which goes back, as does John's poem, to the 6th century writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite), and the path is unknowable.