Carmel : intepreting a great tradition / / Ruth Burrows

• Autore: Burrows Ruth
• Pubblicazione: Starrucca, Pennsylvania ; ; London, England : , : Dimension Books : , : Sheed & Ward, , 2000; ©2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Disciplina: 271.73
• Soggetto topico: Carmelites - Spiritual life; Catholic Church - History of doctrines - 16th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: FOREWORD; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ONE: Great Desires; TWO: The Source; THREE: The Return to Soures; FOUR: Life of Dedicated Love; FIVE: The Charism Embodied; SIX: Eremiticism in the Teresion Carmel; SEVEN: The Observance of Enclosure; EIGHT: Friendship Among the Sister-I; NINE: Friendship Among the Sisters-II; TEN: 'Unoccupied' Prayer; ELEVEN: Asceticism; TWELVE: Formation; THIRTEEN: The Prioress; NOTES
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the outstanding Carmelite authors of today has now written on the vision and aspirations of the great foundress of her order,St Teresa of Avila. The key to that vision was passion - not some state of heightened religious emotion, but an all-engrossing preoccupation with God. But, as Ruth Burrows points out, what all too often happens in practice is that the day-to-day lifestyle becomes adapted to non-passion: she argues, passionately, that faithful observance - the horarium, the 'detachment from created things' obedience, the relationship between sisters - provides an almost perfect sit
• Titolo autorizzato: Carmel
• ISBN: 1-282-01303-3; 9786612013034; 1-4411-8049-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454427103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II