St. Teresa of Avila was a prominent 16th-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun. This is her great work on the practice of prayer, consisting of detailed directions on the achievement of spiritual perfection. It has long been considered a classic of the interior life and Christian mysticism, and m[...]
"The Book of Her Life" is the spiritual autobiography of a Counter Reformation mystic and monastic reformer of sixteenth century Spain. It includes introduction by Jodi Bilinkoff.[...]
Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by ma[...]
A refreshingly modern reconsideration of Saint Teresa (1515-1582), one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.
From the very beginning of her life in a convent, following the death [...]
'A startling case study of how women were able to function as leaders and intellectuals in cultures that forbade these roles in the most extreme way. It throws new light on Teresa as a complex personality, highly political, consciously strategic in her selection of rhetoric for different context, hu[...]
Includes selections from Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle
The practicality of St. Teresa's teaching about mental prayer shines through in this wonderful synopsis of her writings about it something she said "the whole world could not purchase." Learn how we should pray, in order to grow in the spiritual life. Impr. 184 pgs, PB"[...]
Una obra fundamental de la literatura m stica Edici n de Jorge Garc a L pez, profesor de Filolog a Espa ola en la Universitat de Girona Santa Teresa de Jes s, tambi n conocida como Teresa de vila, es, junto con san Juan de la Cruz, el gran nombre de la m stica espa ola. El Libro de la vida es el pr[...]
Teresa of Avila, a renowned sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, received the vision for The Interior Castle one Sunday in 1577. In this signature work, Teresa uses the castle as a symbol for the interior life to describe her mystical experience of the presence of God. Her humble and straightforward tr[...]
Teresa (1515-1582), a Spanish mystic, is considered to be one of the most profound spiritual teachers in the history of Christianity. The Interior Castle is Teresa's spiritual masterpiece.[...]
Archbishop Rowan Williams's study of Teresa of Avila exemplifies his own deep spiritual theology.
Together with her contemporary and friend, St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila stands at the highest point of Catholic spiritual writing in the troubled age of the Reformation and Counter-Reforma[...]