The life of Saint Teresa of Avila : a biography /
The 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 inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019] |
| Series: | Lives of great religious books.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.