Catholic Middle Ages and Beyond
Dark Night of the Soul, by St John of the Cross, and Mystical Theology of Pseudo-Dionysus
What is the Dark Night of the Soul? Many are misled into thinking that the dark night of the soul is a dark place, but St John of the Cross views the dark night of the soul not from his mortal perspective, but from perspective of the eternal, the unknowing, where light we cannot perceive is so luminous that we see it as darkness, this Mystical Theology he draws from the poetry of Dionysius. […]
