Carmel: Interpreting A Great Tradition

OCD, Ruth Burrows

ISBN 10: 0722014511 / ISBN 13: 9780722014516

Editore: Continuum International Publishing, 2000

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Codice articolo GOR006124754

Riassunto:

One of the outstanding Carmelite authors of today has now written on the vision and aspirations of the great foundress of her order, St. Teresa of Avila. The key to the vision was passion - not some state of heightened religious emotion, but an all-engrossing preoccupation with God. But, as Ruth Burrows points out, what all too often happens in practice is that the day-to-day life-style becomes adapted to non-passion: she argues, passionately, that faithful observance - the horarium, the 'detachment from created things' obedience, the relationship between sisters - provides an almost perfect situation for receiving a very great love of God, and that the structure must not be adapted to a lesser love.
This, perhaps her most important book to date, is written primarily for fellow members of her own Order. But this particularity, and the detail and clarity with which she expresses it, makes Carmel a book of profound interest to all contemplatives, to priests and religious with more active apostolates, and to laypeople - in a word, to all Christians who see the 'passionately pursued' contemplative life not only as a core vocation in the Church, but as a source of inspiration for their own spiritual lives.

Informazioni sull?autore: Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite Nun from Quidenham in Norfolk, UK. She is the author of a number of bestselling books including Guidelines for Mystical Prayer and Essence of Prayer.

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Titolo: Carmel: Interpreting A Great Tradition
Casa editrice: Continuum International Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good