Мудрость Ангела Силезия: Парадокс и путь к Богу

The Wisdom of Angelus Silesius: Paradox and the Path to God offers a comprehensive, richly detailed exploration of the life, thought, and enduring legacy of one of the most remarkable figures in the history of Western mysticism. Born Johann Scheffler in war-torn Silesia in 1624, the man who would become Angelus Silesius trained as a physician, converted from Lutheranism to Catholicism, and produced a body of mystical verse that has captivated readers from Hegel and Heidegger to Rilke and Rumi scholars. His masterwork, the Cherubinischer Wandersmann, contains over sixteen hundred epigrammatic couplets that compress centuries of mystical theology into two-line flashes of paradox. "The rose is without why; it blooms because it blooms." "I am as great as God, He is as small as I." These are not riddles but instruments of contemplation, designed to break through the mind's ordinary categories and open a space for direct encounter with the divine. The Wisdom of Angelus Silesius: Paradox and the Path to God traces the full arc of this extraordinary life and thought: Written in a contemplative, historically grounded style for educated general readers, The Wisdom of Angelus Silesius: Paradox and the Path to God recovers the voice of a poet-mystic whose compressed, paradoxical couplets continue to challenge and illuminate anyone willing to pause, be still, and listen for the silence beyond words.