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The Feminine Genius of Catholic Theology introduces Catholic doctrine through the crucible of the women mystics’ reception of the gospel. The work of the great women theologians of the Church’s second millennium has too often been neglected—or relegated to the category of “mysticism”—in textbooks on Catholic doctrine. This is a shame, because their work shows the interior conjunction of...

deep (though still finite). After our cleaving to creatures has been removed, but before God has entered, the longing of the soul for God contains an extraordinary suffering, an extraordinary emptiness caused by love’s desire for union with the beloved God. Even to long for God, however, is already to possess God, though only through grace rather than through union. By grace, the soul longs for union. In this sense, to desire something other than God blocks the soul from recognizing the true object
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