Carmel : intepreting a great tradition / Ruth Burrows.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burrows, Ruth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carmelites--Spiritual life.

Carmelites.

Catholic Church--History of doctrines--16th century.

Catholic Church.

Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582--Influence.

Teresa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Place of Publication:

Starrucca, Pennsylvania ; London, England : Dimension Books : Sheed & Ward, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 that 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 lifestyle 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 sit

Contents:

FOREWORD; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ONE: Great Desires; TWO: The Source; THREE: The Return to Soures; FOUR: Life of Dedicated Love; FIVE: The Charism Embodied; SIX: Eremiticism in the Teresion Carmel; SEVEN: The Observance of Enclosure; EIGHT: Friendship Among the Sister-I; NINE: Friendship Among the Sisters-II; TEN: 'Unoccupied' Prayer; ELEVEN: Asceticism; TWELVE: Formation; THIRTEEN: The Prioress; NOTES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 14, 2018).

ISBN:

1-282-01303-3

9786612013034

1-4411-8049-4

OCLC:

317074778