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David Knowles. quite extraordinary state of union with God in prayer . In other words , they are those contemplatives ... contemplative prayer ; but his words are addressed to all and , in varying measure , go home to the hearts of all in ...
David Knowles. quite extraordinary state of union with God in prayer . In other words , they are those contemplatives ... contemplative prayer ; but his words are addressed to all and , in varying measure , go home to the hearts of all in ...
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... contemplation . " Yet this is not without its drawbacks . On the one hand ... contemplative life " of Aristotle and his successors , from whom the Church has borrowed the phrase , was not originally identical with a life of mystical prayer ...
... contemplation . " Yet this is not without its drawbacks . On the one hand ... contemplative life " of Aristotle and his successors , from whom the Church has borrowed the phrase , was not originally identical with a life of mystical prayer ...
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... contemplative prayer - have in some part gone forward towards the Beatific Vision . Their finite concept of God , purified from association with creatures and simplified as far as may be , has in some degree given place to an ...
... contemplative prayer - have in some part gone forward towards the Beatific Vision . Their finite concept of God , purified from association with creatures and simplified as far as may be , has in some degree given place to an ...
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... contemplative prayer may not be given to those of good will who are ordained to die outside the pale of the visible Church . If this is the true account of the mystical experience , we shall not be wrong in regarding it as in some sense ...
... contemplative prayer may not be given to those of good will who are ordained to die outside the pale of the visible Church . If this is the true account of the mystical experience , we shall not be wrong in regarding it as in some sense ...
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... contemplative prayer , the first of a long series of mystical works to develop the metaphor of the light of faith in contemplation regarded as a ray of darkness . The author of the Cloud translated it into English and frequently quotes ...
... contemplative prayer , the first of a long series of mystical works to develop the metaphor of the light of faith in contemplation regarded as a ray of darkness . The author of the Cloud translated it into English and frequently quotes ...
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