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by: Harpercollins Spiritual Classics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.482
EAN: 9780060576479
ISBN: 0060576472
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: September 01, 2004
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Sales Rank: 181323
Studio: HarperOne
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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 treatise invites readers on a spiritual journey to enter into the deep places in their soul where they will find God.
'The soul of the just person is nothing else but a paradise where the Lord says he finds his delight. So then, what do you think that abode will be like where a King so powerful, so wise, so pure, so full of all good things takes his delight? I don't find anything comparable to the magnificent beauty of a soul and its marvelous capacity.' –– Teresa of Avila
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Rating:  - Spiritual beauty is marred by inane introduction
Saint Teresa of Avila's spiritual insight is remarkable. Anyone who has read her work with reverence knows this.
I take particular exception to the Foreword to this edition of her work, though. Patricia Hampl seems to think it would be helpful to reiterate our 20th and 21st-century biases before we plunge into the interior world of Teresa. Her foreword is rife with irrelevant political commentary, to say nothing of its banal syncretism, a predictably dialectical approach to orthodoxy ... Read More
Rating:  - A castle redrawn
Teresa of Avila is one of the more remarkable figures in the history of Christianity. Living in a perilous time, when the Roman Catholic church was suspicious of anything that might develop into Protestant heresies and schisms, she walked a fine line between obedience to the political structure and obedience to God. It is often the case that mystics and spiritual giants are at odds with church structures of the day (this is rather ecumenical, reaching across Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant lines). ... Read More
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