In this course we will use the translation by William Johnston which was originally published in 1973 and here appears with a short Introduction by Houston Smith (1996) and a Study Guide included at the end.  This edition (2014) includes a second text called The Book of Privy Counseling, written by the same author, and directed to the same monastic audience as the Cloud.

Click on the image to go to the Amazon page, which shows various editions of this text (Paperback, Kindle, and Audiobook) .  As one can see, there are many translations and editions of The Cloud of Unknowing, but we will use this one so we all have  the same wording.

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