The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila : A Biography /

The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever writtenThe Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for in...

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Autor principal: Eire, Carlos (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Colección:Lives of Great Religious Books ; 31
Temas:
Christian saints > Spain > Biography.
Christian women saints > Spain > Biography.
RELIGION / History.
Alumbrados.
Asceticism.
Autobiography.
Beatification.
Bernard of Clairvaux.
Canonization.
Carmelites.
Catherine of Siena.
Catholic Church.
Catholic World.
Catholicism.
Censure.
Christian monasticism.
Christian mysticism.
Christian tradition.
Christianity.
Clergy.
Contrition.
Converso.
Cornell University Press.
Council of Trent.
Counter-Reformation.
Discalced Carmelites.
Discalced.
Divinization (Christian).
Doctor of the Church.
Dowry.
Edith Stein.
Engraving.
Examination of conscience.
Femininity.
Francis Xavier.
Franciscans.
Francisco de Osuna.
God.
Hagiography.
Heresy.
Humility.
Iconography.
Ignatius of Loyola.
Illustration.
Jansenism.
Jews.
John of the Cross.
Jouissance.
Julia Kristeva.
Levitation (paranormal).
Literary criticism.
Literature.
Meister Eckhart.
Mental prayer.
Monastery.
Mystical theology.
Mysticism.
Narrative.
New Christian.
Novelist.
Old Christian.
Orthodoxy.
Patron saint.
Piety.
Polemic.
Pope Paul VI.
Pope Paul.
Pope Urban VIII.
Post-structuralism.
Postmodernism.
Prayer of Quiet.
Prayer.
Preface (liturgy).
Protestantism.
Psychoanalysis.
Publication.
Quietism (Christian philosophy).
Relic.
Religion.
Religiosity.
Religious experience.
Religious order.
Religious text.
Rhetoric.
Richard Crashaw.
Rowan Williams.
Saint.
Secularism.
Sermon.
Sign of contradiction.
Skepticism.
Society of Jesus.
Spiritual direction.
Spirituality.
Symptom.
Teresa of Ávila.
The Interior Castle.
The Venerable.
Theology.
Treatise.
Veneration.
Western culture.
Writing.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface: The Character of the Vida
  • Chapter 1. Teresa's Life Story
  • Chapter 2. How, When, and Why the Book Was Written
  • Chapter 3. The Mysticism of the Vida
  • Chapter 4. The Life of the Vida, 1600- 1800
  • Chapter 5. The Life of the Vida in Art
  • Chapter 6. From Enlightenment to Modernity: Skeptics, Seekers, Psychoanalysts, Fascists
  • Chapter 7. The Post- Mystical Intermillennial Vida
  • Epilogue. Doctor of the Church, Sign of Contradiction
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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