Knowing the Unknowable

This exploration is coming soon. It will cover the summit of hesychast knowledge — the wordless, imageless awareness of God that the Fathers call theologia in its most exalted sense.

The exploration will draw together the threads of the preceding explorations in this chapter to ask what genuine knowledge of God looks like when it transcends the limits of concept and image. It will examine the tradition's paradoxical language about this state — simultaneously insisting on its reality and on the inadequacy of all description — and will consider what the practitioner can reasonably hope for and what forms of preparation open the person toward what cannot ultimately be sought or grasped, only received.