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 Interior Castle
Teresa of Avila (Edited by Beverlee Chadwick)
Item: 4647
Softcover, 350 Pages
Includes free CD of selected excerpts read by Beverlee Chadwick,
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Teresa of Avila wrote several books during her life that have
become spiritual classics. Interior Castle (1577) unveils a
profound spiritual vision in which Teresa saw the soul as "a
castle made of a single diamond . . . surrounded by six mansions
the soul must traverse on its journey to the center of the
castle and union with God." One approached the seventh mansion
in the center, where the King of Glory dwells, by going through
the other mansions of Humility, Practice of Prayer, Meditation,
Quiet, Illumination, and Dark Night. In each of the seven
mansions readers will experience a deepening desire to know God
more intimately by conforming their wills to His will.
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Teresa of Ávila (1515 - 1582), a major figure of the Roman
Catholic Reformation, was a prominent writer and a monastic
reformer. She joined the Carmelite order of nuns as a young
woman and spent long hours in a form of meditation that she
called the "prayer of quiet" and the deeper "prayer of union."
She wrote several books that have become spiritual classics.
Her best-known work is Interior Castle. She is one of the
thirty-three Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church, and one of
only three female Doctors, along with St. Catherine of Siena and
St. Thérèse of Lisieux. |
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