caa a22 4500 386387095 CHVBK 20180307112101.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034412500019879 doi S0034412500019879 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034412500019879 Sanderlin David Spring Valley, California Faith and Ethical Reasoning in the Mystical Theology of St John of the Cross: A Reasonable Christian Mysticism [Elektronische Daten] [David Sanderlin] It is often said that Christian mystics and contemplatives deemphasize reason, especially during advanced stages of spiritual growth such as union with God. St John of the Cross insists that to be united with God in this life through faith, we must empty our intellect of all comprehensions of God in a dark night of unknowing. According to Zwi Werblowsky, John's teaching on faith means the annihilation of the intellect. Werblowsky distinguishes between cognitive and anti-cognitive mysticism, and calls John's mysticism anti-cognitive. According to Werblowsky, cognitive mysticism values distinct, detailed knowledge from divine sources about divine or human realities, while anti-cognitive mysticism rejects such supernatural knowledge as an obstacle to union with God. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/3(1989-09), 317-333 0034-4125 25:3<317 1989 25 RES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500019879 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500019879 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sanderlin David Spring Valley, California NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/3(1989-09), 317-333 0034-4125 25:3<317 1989 25 RES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge