A Deep But Dazzling Darkness

A Deep but Dazzling Darkness is a surprising and inspiring anthology of attempts to capture in words the experience of religious faith, drawn from letters, journals, novels and poems, from every age of the church's life and from every Christian tradition.

Contributions include passages from the Old Testament and the Church Fathers, and authors include Augustine, John Donne, C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, James Boswell, Jorge Luis Borges and Simone Weil.

ISBN	0232524262	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9780232524260 (What's this?)	Pages	224
Publisher	Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd	Weight (grammes)	227
Imprint	Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd	Published in	London
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	216
Publication date	01 Oct 2002	Width (mm)	140
DEWEY	231	Academic level	General

	Introduction
1	From Genesis to Jeremiah	1
2	From St. Matthew to St. Hesychios the Priest: 1st-7th century	12
3	From Bede to St. Symeon: 7th-11th century	33
4	From St. Anselm to Thomas a Kempis: 11th-15th century	42
5	From Martin Luther to Ben Jonson: 15th-16th century	63
6	From Marina of Escobar to Cotton Mather: 16th-18th century	72
7	From Elizabeth Singer Rowe to William Wordsworth: 18th-19th century	94
8	From Zilpha Elaw to Henry Handel Richardson: 19th-20th century	110
9	From Miguel Unamuno to Carolyn M. Rodgers: 20th-21st century	133
	Biographies and Notes	161
	Acknowledgements	176
	Index of Authors	181

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