Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel

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This book is the fruit of Thomas Dubay’s many years of study and experience in spiritual direction and in it he synthesizes the teachings on prayer of the two great doctors of the Church on prayer—St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila—and the teaching of Sacred Scripture. But the teaching that Dubay synthesized is not collected from Teresa and John for contemplatives alone. It is meant...

In any event, Ss. John and Teresa do know, and their prescriptions for growth are as different from the techniques and productionist approaches as the heavens are from the earth. In this chapter we shall study St. Teresa alone and point out how her teaching is firmly rooted in the biblical word as well as in the experience of prayerful men and women of every age. While St. Teresa was well acquainted with methods of meditation and wished her young nuns to be instructed

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