Tables of Contents for The Darkness of God

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Two Sources and a Synthesis: 1. The allegory and Exodus

2. Cataphatic and the apophatic in Denys the Areopagite

3. The God within: Augustine's Confessions

4. Interiority and ascent: Augustine's De Trinitate

5. Hierarchy interiorised: Bonaventure's Itinerarium Mentis in Deum

Part II. Developments: 6. Eckhart: God and the self

7. Eckhart: detachment and the critique of desire

8. The Cloud of Unknowing and the critique of interiority

9. Denys the Carthusian and the problem of experience

10. John of the Cross: the dark nights and depression

11. From mystical theology to mysticism