Living in the Spirit
Living in the Spirit This is a story of energy, conflict and danger, defeats and triumphs in 16th and 17th century England and Spain. They write of their visions and inner voices, their miracles and…
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Living in the Spirit
This is a story of energy, conflict and danger, defeats and triumphs in 16th and 17th century England and Spain. They write of their visions and inner voices, their miracles and meditations, of spiritual transformation, of love, joy, hope and manifestation. It is told from the inside, through the thinking and feelings of five protagonists, using contemporary culture and their own writings.
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. Their lens is the dominant controlling text of the time -- the Bible.They are a mixed group. 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