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St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry
The paperback edition of a very successful and in some ways remarkable book, first published in 1973. Gerald Brenan is well known for his 'expository' works on Spanish history and literature, and now in his eighties he has returned to an early interest in the Spanish mystics to produce an absorbing study of St John of the Cross, one of the foremost of Catholic mystics and poets. The book is perhaps the first in English to combine an objective - but sensitive and lively - account of St John's life with a fresh translation (by Mr Brenan's associate Lynda Nicholson) of his verse.
Teresa - A Woman
Traces the life of the sixteenth-century Spanish saint, describes her visions, and discusses her writings and accomplishments
A Call to the Secret Place
Deep Inside Each One of Us is a Longing to Escape the Frantic Pace of Life in the 21st Century. A Call to the Secret Place is your personal invitation to take that step towards the place lovingly prepared for you. Cheering you on will be the voices of other women as shared by Michal Ann Goll - women on the frontlines like Madam Guyon, Susanna Wesley, Fanny Crosby, Basilea Schlink, Gwen Shaw, Beth Alves and others. Their collective voices call out inviting you to join them in the privacy of a loving moment with your Lord.
Nuns
Cloistered and inaccessible 'brides of Christ'? Or socially engaged women, active in the outside world to a degree impossible for their secular sisters? Nuns tells the fascinating stories of the women who have lived in religious communities since the dawn of the modern age - their ideals and achievements, frustrations and failures, and their attempts to reach out to the society around them. Drawing particularly on the nuns' own words, Silvia Evangelisti explores how they came to the cloister, how they responded to monastic discipline, and how they pursued their spiritual, intellectual, and missionary activities. The book looks not only at the individual stories of outstanding historical figures such as Teresa of Avila but also at the wider picture of convent life - what it symbolized to contemporaries, how it reflected and related to the world beyond the cloister, and what it means in the world today.
