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03313aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 B90D72E8B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 190325t20192019njua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019936638 020 $a 0691164932 020 $a 9780691164939 035 $a (OCoLC)1090685129 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d TP7 $d UAP $d CPL $d OCLCF $d ORX $d YDXIT $d SILO 050 4 $a BX4700 T4 E37 2019 100 1 $a Eire, Carlos M. N. $e author. 245 14 $a The life of Saint Teresa of Avila : $b a biography / $c Carlos Eire. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press $c [2019] 300 $a xvi, 260 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm 490 1 $a Lives of Great Religious Books ; $v 31 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 8 $a The 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 inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics, philosophers, artists, psychoanalysts, and neurologists. How did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become one of the most inspiring religious books of all time? National Book Award winner Carlos Eire tells the story of this incomparable spiritual masterpiece, examining its composition and reception in the sixteenth century, the various ways its mystical teachings have been interpreted and reinterpreted across time, and its enduring influence in our own secular age. The Life became an iconic text of the Counter-Reformation, was revered in Franco's Spain, and has gone on to be read as a feminist manifesto, a literary work, and even as a secular text. But as Eire demonstrates in this vibrant and evocative book, Teresa's confession is a cry from the heart to God and an audacious portrayal of mystical theology as a search for love. Here is the essential companion to the Life, one woman's testimony to the reality of mystical experience and a timeless affirmation of the ultimate triumph of good over evil. 600 00 $a Teresa, $c of Avila, Saint, $d 1515-1582. 650 0 $a Christian saints $z Spain $y 16th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Spiritual life $x Catholic Church $v Early works to 1800. 600 07 $a Teresa, $c of Avila, Saint, $d 1515-1582. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00052461 830 0 $a Lives of great religious books; $v 31. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905041655.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B90D72E8B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search