Living in the Spirit
This is a story of energy, conflict and danger, defeats and triumphs in 16th and 17th century England and Spain. It is told from the inside, through the thinking and feelings of five protagonists,…
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This is a story of energy, conflict and danger, defeats and triumphs in 16th and 17th century England and Spain. It is told from the inside, through the thinking and feelings of five protagonists, using contemporary culture and their own writings. They write of their visions and inner voices, their miracles and meditations, of spiritual transformation, of love, joy, hope and manifestation. Their lens is the dominant controlling text of the time -- the Bible.They are a mixed group. Theresa of Avila was from a prosperous Spanish Catholic family, a woman who faced the Inquisition and whose grandfather was a Jew; she radically reformed the Carmelite community of nuns. John of the Cross, her spiritual prot g and fellow-reformer, was also a Spanish Catholic, child of a poor working single-parent mother. Mary Ward, a genteel Catholic in Protestant England, founded the Congregation of