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Title: The Life of Teresa of Jesus : The Autobiography of Teresa of Avila by E. ALLISON PEERS ISBN: 0-385-01109-1 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Heavenly Work, Not-so-Heavenly Translation
Comment: This is one of the best works in the Catholic Christian literature. However, this particular translation is not a good translation from the Spanish; it is not entirely accurate. E. Allison Peers does a much better job translating and her translation is better spiritually.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing Woman for Your Spiritual Journey
Comment: This book will introduce you to St. Teresa through passages such as her visions of angels, her vision of Christ, and the stages of contemplative prayer. Her writing is simple and easy to follow, but has great depth to it. The person beginning a life of prayer is presented as a gardener who must care for his or her garden so that it will bloom with flowers and good scents. Once the garden is well cared for, God will come to enjoy the garden. Eventually, a life of contemplative prayer, she writes, will climax to union and then ecstasy . Of remarkable beauty is her first vision of Christ, which is a vision of just His hands. The next vision is of His face. Even if you do not believe in such things or want to follow a path as intense as hers, her story is still incredible and worth the read. It is also an exhilarating read if you enjoy autobiographies.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Humble Life
Comment: St. Teresa's autobiography records her life up to the age of fifty. She is a simple woman, her writing not being anything more that the thoughts that come to her mind. She states in the letter that accompanied this work to Friar Garcia De Toledo that "Some things...may be badly expressed, and others put down twice, for I have had so little time for the task that I have not been able to reread what I have written." In spite of this, St. Teresa reveals mystical and spiritual wonders in beautiful description. Rather than a history of her works and the events that determine her worldly life, this book is more of a spiritual autobiography. She recounts her childhood desires and the early yearning of her soul to be with God. She talks of her illnesses and how she came closer to God through them. St. Teresa gives her description of different levels of prayer, which appear in both the Way of Perfection and the Interior Castle. She tells of the ways in which God spoke to her, at first in subtle manners to more salient ones later in her life. She received an increased number of visions as she advanced spiritually. God also begins to speak to her more directly. All this comforted her and guided her as she established the convent of St. Joseph's at Avila. In the convent's establishment, St. Teresa describes the opposition that she faced and her financial worries. Endowed with a will to reject the things of this world, she pressed on, setting a rule of poverty for her Avilan sisters. Throughout The Life, she wanders from her main point to give her understanding of several spiritual matters. The book is also permeated with her humility and self-abasement. Reading through this autobiography will benefit anyone wishing to read the Way of Perfection or the Interior Castle, her two other most notable works.
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Title: Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers ISBN: 0385036434 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 04 January, 1972 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Way of Perfection by Teresa Of Avila ISBN: 0385065396 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 15 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Dark Night of the Soul by E. Allison Peers, St. John of the Cross ISBN: 0385029306 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1959 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Teresa of Avila : The Progress of a Soul by Cathleen Medwick ISBN: 0385501293 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 16 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel-On Prayer by Thomas Dubay ISBN: 0898702631 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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