The Dark Night: A Gift of God (repost)
The Dark Night: A Gift of God By Daniel P. Schrock
Publisher: Herald Press 2009 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 083619425X | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Herald Press 2009 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 083619425X | PDF | 1 MB
When Menno Simons died in 1561, John of the Cross was only nineteen years old and still a student at the local Jesuit college in Medina del Campo, Spain. The paths of these two religiously committed young men never crossed. However, four centuries later pastor Daniel P. Schrock has brought to the attention of his Mennonite tradition the teachings on the dark night as originally articulated by John of the Cross in his poem and its commentary known as The Dark Night. Is not the convergence in our time of these two sixteenth-century religious figures a sign of ecumenical progress at a moment when we sorely need to find ways to share
with each other the riches of our differing traditions?