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The classic Spanish poem about the struggle of the soul to find God, written by the sixteenth-century saint while in prison, is accompanied by the author's own reflections on his work, in this first English translation of the poem and its commentary. 25,000 first printing.
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Almost every believer feels forgotten by God sometimes. Even Christ cried out on the cross, "Oh God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Dark Night of the Soul, a 16th-century mystical text written by the Carmelite monk St. John of the Cross, ranks among Christianity’s most helpful answers to this enduring question. In St. John’s vision of spiritual life, the pain of separation from God is to be embraced, not avoided. "The dark night is about being fully present in the tender, wounded emptiness of our own souls," explains translator Mirabai Starr--although she grants that modern culture makes such acceptance hard to attain. "We tend to see difficult feelings as a form of illness, which we hope to conquer, cure, and expel. [St. John of the Cross] has a far greater imagination of human life: his goal is not health but union with the divine." Several fine English translations of Dark Night already exist; Starr’s, however, is distinguished by its ecumenism. Minimizing the explicit scriptural references of the original text, she makes the treasures of Dark Night more accessible to readers of all religious traditions. --Michael Joseph Gross
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- PublisherRiverhead Hardcover
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1573222054
- ISBN 13 9781573222051
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages150
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