The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila : : A Biography / / Carlos Eire.
The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever writtenThe 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 in...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 9 b/w illus. |
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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