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The Loving Search for God: Contemplative Prayer and the Cloud of Unknowing

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Easy to read. Easy to understand. It demonstrates God's love and grace thru the gift of contemplative prayer.
A must read for anyone starting the journey. Of course everyone is in one of the 'stages' of the loving search: a "beginner, only a beginner, or just a beginner".
Provides examples on understanding Scripture at the allegorical level.
Warm, friendly, loving. Much more effective than 'great' theological disertations.

I love this little book and return to it over and over again. The chapters are easy to understand and to apply to my prayer life.

WOW! The best on-line service I have ever had. Rate at 6-stars if possible. Book in wonderful condition, like new except one detail, which as advised in the posting. Book was in my post office within 72 hours eventhough IHS had declared it would be withing a week!
Regarding the reading of this masterpiece by a master of the spiritualcraft, I classify as outstanding in its literature, its message and the enlightening of the 15th century "Cloud of Unknowing". It's historical content is not always clear. The author, an expert in the spritualcraft realizes this and is excellent in bringing it down to our 21st century reality. The author is highly to be commended for this.

As one who loves the Cloud of Unknowing, my impression was that the author indeed understood that work very well - and assumed that readers would as well. Wishful thinking, indeed! This book is a series of loving, sweet, but rather unsatisfying meditations. It is obviously an attempt to make the Cloud understandable to any reader, but that is a task doomed to failure. The Cloud was written for one the author had judged to be called to the contemplative prayer that is a sheer gift of grace, and therefore assumed a strong liturgical and prayer life, an understanding of sin and virtue, etc. One could read this entire book and not have a clue.