The Dark Knowledge of God Pieper By Henri Daniel-Rops

By Henri Daniel-Rops

In his Preface to this volume

Guilt concludes on the deeply hopeful note of the revitalizing power of the Incarnation: “Christ [took] all the suffering of guilt on himself

taught at five law schools

Addressing the topics of how the intellectual search for God influences the life of prayer and how the discipline of a life of prayer acts as the necessary grounding for a sustained search for the truth

The Dark Knowledge of God Pieper By Henri Daniel-RopsBy Charles Journet From Sacred Scripture to the Summa Theologiae, the silent wisdom of the via negativa has inspired what Charles Journet calls the unknowing of love and the ignorance that is truly learned. The Dark Knowledge of God conducts a concise overview of the apophatic tradition with a series of intriguing meditations on the divine nature. The primary benefit of the via negativa, per Journet, is its power to simplify our apprehension of God.