Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark : Mysticism, Art, and the Path of Unknowing
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0300279760
ISBN-13
9780300279764
Publisher
Yale University Press
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Yale University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 24th, 2026
Print length
224 Pages
Product Classification:
Philosophy of religionSpirituality & religious experienceMysticism
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A philosopher journeys back to the mystics to learn how to live with uncertainty in the twenty-first century How do we live when we don’t know what to believe, or who to believe, or how we could even know? In this deeply felt book, philosopher James K. A. Smith explores how radical uncertainty can be liberating, opening us to another way of being. The pain of his own profound uncertainty led Smith to a surprising source for modern consolation: the mystical experiences of Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint John of the Cross, and the author of the Cloud of Unknowing. These mystics testify to a deeper truth beneath all that distracts and all that foments anxiety and fear. It is love. Drawing on ancient traditions of contemplation as well as on contemporary novels, poetry, film, and paintings, Smith speaks to the fundamental yearnings that persist in late modernity, including the philosophical quest for knowledge and certainty. He shows us how the gifts of the Christian contemplative tradition and the riches of creative works embody a liberating spirituality that recovers the fullness of being human. As Smith traces his twenty-first-century journey with the mystics, he reveals that wisdom is learning how to live with uncertainty. In bringing a philosopher’s eye and ear to the mystics, Smith brings a mystical heart back to philosophy.
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