“…The connection between these two phenomena is rarely explicitly discussed, although it may be evoked in some communities, in some authors, and in some situations. (Ruffing 2001, p. 7) The purpose of this article is to show that many Sanjuanist commentators and biographers in the past err in portraying St. John of the Cross as a world-negating contemplative by calling him the doctor of the dark night of the soul, a phrase he never used (see Zimmerman 1928;Peers 1945;Doohan 1995;Perrin 1997;Serrán-Pagán 2017). Other Sanjuanist modern commentators have attributed the dark night to John's imprisonment in Toledo (Matthew 1995, p. 55;McGreal 1997, pp.…”