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Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Sarah Coakley
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In a volume devoted to philosophy, religion and the spiritual life, I would like to focus the later part of my essay on a comparison of two Christian spiritual writings of the fourteenth century, the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing in the West (1981), and the Triadsof Gregory Palamas in the Byzantine East (1983). Their examples, for reasons which I shall explain, seem to me rich with implications for some of our current philosophical and theological aporias on the nature of the self. Let me explain my thesis in skeletal form at the outset, for it is a complex one, and has several facets.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 32 , March 1992 , pp. 89 - 103
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1992

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