The life of Saint Teresa of Avila a biography
The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written 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 i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2019, ©2019
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| Series: | Lives of great religious books
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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