The Making of a Mystic: Seasons in the Life of Teresa of AvilaThis is a passionate book about a gifted woman. It is written from a psychological viewpoint using the developmental point of view of a number of contemporary developmental psychologists, both men and women. It is a critique of contemporary American shallowness and is an apologia for a feminist ethic and a feminist sense of prayer in a world dominated by competition, abstraction, and unthinking labor. |
Contents
Childhood | 1 |
Spain and Spaniards in the Golden | 123 |
The Journey to Her Own Voice | 143 |
Morality | 171 |
Psychology and Prayer | 185 |
Teresas Prayer and Her Psychology of Prayer | 201 |
Teresas Playfulness | 211 |
Notes | 229 |
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The Making of a Mystic: Seasons in the Life of Teresa of Avila Francis L. Gross Jr. No preview available - 1993 |
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Americo Castro Belenky Bilinkoff biography brother C. G. Jung called Carmelite Carol Gilligan chapter childhood Christian church Claremont de Castillejo contemplation context convent converso crisis of identity daughter death described discalced discalced Carmelites Dorothy Day dream emphasis Erik Erikson experience faith father feel Foundations Fowler friars friends Gandhi Gandhi's Truth Gracián Holden hope Ibid inner voice Inquisition Irene Claremont journey kind knew Knowing Woman Kohlberg later Lawrence Kohlberg learned letters lived Lord male mental prayer Mohandas Gandhi morality mother mystics never nuns old age one's person Peter of Alcántara playfulness prioress psychology quote reader reform religious Robert Coles Saint Teresa seems sense silence sister soul Spain Spaniards Spanish speak spirit stage story Sylvia Plath tell Teresa of Avila Teresa of Jesus terrible Tiempo y Vida tion wild things women words writing York