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By Denys Turner

For the medieval mystical culture, the Christian soul meets God in a 'cloud of unknowing', a divine darkness of lack of awareness. This assembly with God is past all figuring out and past all experiencing. Mysticisms of the trendy interval, to the contrary, position 'mystical adventure' on the centre, and modern readers are likely to misunderstand the medieval culture in 'experientialist' phrases. Denys Turner argues that the individuality and modern relevance of medieval mysticism lies accurately in its rejection of 'mystical experience', and locates the magical firmly in the clutch of the normal and the standard. The argument covers a few imperative experts within the interval from Augustine to John of the Cross.

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