TY - JOUR AU - Wynn, Mark PY - 2012/09/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Mystery, Humility and Religious Practice in the Thought of St John of the Cross JF - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion JA - EJPR VL - 4 IS - 3 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.24204/ejpr.v4i3.278 UR - https://philosophy-of-religion.eu/index.php/ejpr/article/view/278 SP - 89-108 AB - The ‘dark night of the soul’ is a common motif in Christian spiritual writing; and the <em>locus classicus</em> for this motif is the work of John of the Cross, a Spanish Carmelite friar of the sixteenth century. My aim in this paper is to use John’s account of the ‘night’ to consider how the themes of <em>mystery</em>, <em>humility</em> and <em>religious practice</em> may be subsumed, and related to one another, within a Christian conception of God and of human life lived out in relation to God. ER -