Books : Teresa of Avila: The Book of My Life
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by: Mirabai Starr
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 282
EAN: 9781590305737
ISBN: 1590305736
Label: New Seeds
Manufacturer: New Seeds
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: July 08, 2008
Publisher: New Seeds
Release Date: July 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 401357
Studio: New Seeds
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Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) is one of the most beloved of the Catholic saints. In 1562, during the era of the Spanish Inquisition, Teresa sat down to write an account of the mystical experiences for which she had become famous. The result was this book, one of the great classics of spiritual autobiography. With this fresh translation of The Book of My Life, Mirabai Starr brings the inimitable Spanish mystic to life for a new generation, with contemporary English that mirrors Teresa's own earthy, vernacular Spanish, and that presents us with—four centuries after Teresa's death—someone we feel we know: a woman intoxicated with God yet filled with an overflowing love for the world.
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Rating:  - A Story of Who St. Teresa Was NOT...
As a 30-year student of comparative religion, Eastern philosophy, Judaism and Christianity, I was appalled at this flippant and superficial updating of Saint Teresa's profound spirituality, vibrant sensuality, shrewd expression of courage and feminine shakti. Mirabai Starr styles herself as a seeker of spiritual truth but is clearly just a refugee from her own religious roots. Along the way, she has found that she, like her husband Ganga Das (AKA Jeff Little), can make a decent living by becoming ... Read More
Rating:  - Very Personal Story
I am no Bible scholar nor am I a Catholic. I am of the Evangelical corner of Christianity. This is the first biography of any Catholic saint that I've ever read. To me, Teresa's story is very personal and is certainly no coincidence that I read it at this particular time in my life. I have no idea how much of her writing in anguish about how she feels she failed the Lord has been edited out, but after reading the book, I have an understanding that she must have been quite severe on herself. That is ... Read More
Rating: - Translating St. Teresa for todays seeker
The beauty and art of Mirabai Starr's translations of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross is her ability to convey their lives and souls and consciousness for today's seeker. The place and time in which Teresa lived is so completely different from even the monastics of our day that to render her every word, including her copious remarks of self-deprecation, would be an injustice to her spirit. She was a free thinker of her day and powerful in a way that was almost unknown for a nun in medieval ... Read More
Rating: - A Spiritual Gem for the 21st Century
Mirabai Starr's review makes Teresa of Avila come alive for the twenty-first century spiritual seeker. Faithfulness to spiritual teachers of the past requires us to hear their voices in the language and images that they would use were they alive today as well as the voice of their own time. The Book of My Life is an invitation to the reader to explore the book of her or his own life and experience God's presence in the ordinary as well as extraordinary moments of life. Mirabai Starr has the gift of enabling ... Read More
Rating: - Starr's "Book of My Life" Lets St. Teresa Breathe Again
Mirabai Starr is a gifted interpreter of the Spanish mystics--John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. In her newest endeavor, "The Book of My Life" by Teresa of Avila, Starr reclaims some of Teresa's original passion and integrity as a woman and a powerbroker in the Church at the time. Starr's approach of reading deeply into the original text and liberating it from the bonds of historical patriarchal and doctrinal rectitude allows the reader to know Teresa as the courageous spiritual and social innovator that ... Read More
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