Reading Teresa of Avila through Aquinas on the Soul, Spiritual Development and Knowledge Ebook PDF
Katerina Kutarnová
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Katerina Kutarnová, Reading Teresa of Avila through Aquinas on the Soul, Spiritual Development and Knowledge Ebook PDF (2022), Aschendorff Verlag, Münster, ISBN: 9783402103517
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Beschreibung / Abstract
The book explores the depths and highs of the mystical life in the works of Teresa of Avila with a special focus on the relations between the intellect, will and mystical knowledge. As the Interior Castle, the major source for the work, finds its ultimate peak in the union of the soul with its God, so also this book comes to its fullest in the final chapter and concludes that the mystical marriage is a kind of proto-beatific vision: it already is beatitude but not yet fully so. To enable the reader to follow the argumentation, first part of the book is dedicated to a novel interpretation of Teresa’s thought which transgresses the usual approach of following Teresa throughout the seven dwelling places. This book presents a fresh and novel interpretation of Teresa’s teaching, highlights the common traits between her and Aquinas and offers a chance to peep into the depth of the mystical life.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Titelseite
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Basic Layout of the Work
- WHAT I AM WRITING ABOUT
- THAT WHICH WAS OMITTED
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE INQUIRY
- HISTORICAL CONTEXT
- Chapter 2: St Teresa on Soul
- THE SYMBOL OF THE CASTLE
- SOUL AND BODY
- THE INTERIOR CASTLE: THE SOUL
- THREE MAIN LEVELS: BODY – INTELLECT – BORDERLINE
- PARALLELS TO THE TEACHING OF THE INTERIOR CASTLE IN OTHER MAJOR WORKS
- SUMMARY: PROBLEMS OF THE SYMBOL
- Chapter 3: Dynamic Element: Activity of the Soul and Three Stages of Spiritual Life
- SOURCES OF THE TEACHING ON THE THREE STAGES OF THE INTERIOR LIFE
- VIA PURGATIVA: DETACHMENT FROM ALL CREATEDTHINGS
- VIA ILLUMINATIVA: TRUE HUMILITY
- VIA UNITIVA: LOVE FOR THE OTHER
- TWO IMPORTANT POINTS OF TRANSITION
- Chapter 4: Prayer: The Means of Directing the Spiritual Life towards the Final Union
- KINDS OF PRAYER
- THE SPACE-TIME FOR GOD
- Chapter 5: Will, Intellect, Memory
- AQUINAS ON THE WILL AND ITS MUTUAL RELATION TO THE INTELLECT
- INTENTION AND CHOICE
- THE END
- Chapter 6: Mystical knowledge
- THE POSSIBILITY AND IMPORTANCE OF MYSTICAL KNOWLEDGE
- TERESA AND AQUINAS: CONTEMPLATION AND MYSTICAL KNOWLEDGE
- FREEDOM
- WILL, INTELLECT AND MEMORY IN THE UNITIVE STAGE
- Chapter 7: Mystical Marriage
- TERESA ON MYSTICAL MARRIAGE
- AQUINAS ON MYSTICAL MARRIAGE
- WHAT WE HOLD BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND BY SIGHT
- THE RECONCILIATION OF MARTHA AND MARY
- (NON-)PERMANENCE OF MYSTICAL MARRIAGE
- Bibliography
- PRIMARY SOURCES
- SECONDARY SOURCES