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Teresa - A Woman

A Biography of Teresa of Avila

Inbunden, Engelska, 1985

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She was a saint, a mystic, a reformer, a legend, and she was a fascinating and complex woman. This is the first full-scale biography of Saint Teresa of Avila from a human, nonconfessional point of view. Victoria Lincoln immersed herself thoroughly in all of Saint Teresa's writings, including her extensive correspondence. She has reconstructed the inner life of this rigorous reformer of the Carmelite Order and disciplined explorer of mystical experience. The relation between Saint Teresa's inner and outer life is defined with new insight and profundity.

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Utgivningsdatum1985-06-30
Mått157 x 25 x 231 mm
Vikt794 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Cultural Perspectives
Antal sidor482
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780873959360

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Introduction by Antonio T. de NicolasEditor's Foreword by Elias RiversEssential BibliographyChronologyList of People and PlacesPreface by Victoria LincolnAcknowledgments 1. Juan Sanchez, Teresa's Jewish Grandfather2. Teresa's Father and Mother; Her Birth in Gotarrendura3. Teresa's Siblings4. Teresa as a Child and as a Very Young Woman in Avila5. Her Life in an Augustininan Convent6. Teresa as Nun in the Unenclosed Carmelite Convent of the Incarnarion7. Osuna's Third Spiritual Alphabet; "Mental Prayer"8. Teresa's Recovery from Serious Illness9. Inner Conflict; Teresa's Second Conversion following Her Reading of St. Augustine's Confessions10. Jesuit Confessors; Teresa's Desire to Escape from the Incarnation11. Breakdown of Teresa's Health; Living in the House of Yomar (Dona Guiomar de Ulloa); Teresa and Certain Jesuits; The First Rapture12. Teresa and Her Confessor, Juan de Pradanos; Visions and Voices13. "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa"14. Fray Pedro de Alcantara15. The Idea of Founding a Reformed, Enclosed Carmelite Convent16. First Steps toward Establishing a Reformed Convent; Difficulties17. Teresa Ordered to Toledo as Spiritual Companion to a Widowed Great Lady. Teresa Writes Her Life, as Ordered to by Father Garcia de Toledo18. Bishop Mendoza; Humble Founding of St. Joseph's Discalced Convent in Avila19. Saving St. Joseph's from Being Closed by the City Council20. Teresa's Constitutions for Discalced Carmelite Nuns21. Garcia de Toledo, Domingo Banez, and The Way of Perfection22. Enter Rubeo (Father Rossi, New Carmelite General)23. House-hunting for a Reformed Convent in Medina del Campo; Heredia; John of the Cross24. Malagon. Trouble Caused by Teresa's Loan of Manuscript of Her Life25. A Tiny House for Discalced Carmelite Friars in Duruelo; Labors of John of the Cross; Malaria26. Convenets in Valladolid and Toledo27. The Princess of Eboli28. A Year in Toledo; Inquisitor Soto29. Founding in Salamanca; the Bad Friars at Pastrana; The Book of Foundations30. Teresa's Very Partial Account of the Foundings in Salamanca and Alba de Tormes31. Cause of the Delay in Salamanca; What Happened in Alba de Tormes32. Teresa and Martin de Gutierrez; Climate of Fear33. The Carmelite Provincial's Plan to Sidetrack Teresa34. Her Return to the Incarnation as Prioress35. John of the Cross at the Incarnation as Its Vicar and Confessor to the Nuns36. Enter Gracian; a Letter from Teresa to King Philip37. The House at Salamanca, Father Baltasar Alvarez, and the Widowed Princess of Eboli as a Nun38. Father Domingo Banez, Gracian, Nieto, and Mariano39. Founding a Convent in Segovia40. The Spanish Inquisition41. Founding a Convent at Beas; Teresa's Blind Faith in Gracian42. Teresa's Love for Gracian, and Her Vow to Him43. The Journey to Seville44. Teresa in Seville; Her Letters to Her General, Rubeo45. Teresa's Appeal to King Philip; Her Strangely Unadmirable Self-justifying Letter to a Prioress46. Maria del Corro; General Rubeo's Condemnation of Teresa; His Authority versus that of Gracian as Apostolic Visitor47. A Letter from Teresa to General Rubeo; the Inquisition Comes to Seville to Question Her48. Teresa's Superb Successful Defense; the Convent at Caravaca; Letters of this Time49. The Vicar-General, Tostado; Teresa's Flight from Seville to Malagon; Financial Problems of the Convents50. Some of Teresa's Troubles with Gracian51. Teresa's New Book, The Visitation of Convents; Letters She Wrote during a Year on Toledo52. Teresa's Fears for Gracian53. New Problems; Maria de San Jose; More Letters to Gracian54. Teresa and Her Brother Lorenzo55. Things Go from Bad to Worse for Teresa, Gracian, and the Discalced56. More Letters; Writing The Interior Castle; Death of the Friendly Papal Nuncio57. War between Calced and Discalced Carmelites; Teresa's Effort to Overcome Effects of Gracian's Inactivity; an Imbroglio and Violence at the Incarnation58. Imprisonment of John of the Cross; Teresa's Letters to the King59. Beginning of a Year of Crisis; Idea of Making the Discalced a Separate Order60. Teresa's Attempts to Influence the New Nuncio, Sega, Who is Hostile to Reforms61. Teresa's Advice to Gracian on an Appeal to Rome62. Gracian, King Philip, and the Nuncio63. Accusations at the Seville Convent; Teresa and Doria64. Teresa's Travels Resumed65. A Foundation at Villanueva de la Jara; a Threat of Violence to Teresa in Montalban66. Orders to Visit Valladolid and Segovia and to Found in Palencia; John of the Cross, a Saint67. Teresa's Meditations; Death of Her Brother Lorenzo68. Teresa'a Brush with Death; Death of Friends69. An Unopposed Founding in Palencia70. A Chapter Meeting of the Discalced; Teresa's New Constitutions for the Order71. Plan to Found in Soria72. The Soria Founding73. Failure of St. Joseph's and Other Convents to Maintain Teresa's Ideals74. More Problems for Teresa75. Dr. Castro, a Congenial Confessor; Last Meeting with John of the Cross76. A Ghastly Trip to Burgos77. A Founding in Burgos Despite Hostility78. Trouble with Jesuits; Beginning of Teresa's Fatal Illness; Burgos Flooded79. Visit to Palencia; Last Letter to Gracian80. A Bad Reception in Valladolid; Teresa Kidnapped by Heredia; a Mess in Alba de Tormes81. Teresa's Death and Burial; Exhumation at Gracian's Orders; Author's Last Words on St. Teresa Index