Fire Within : Saint Teresa Of Avila John Of The Cross And The Gospel On Pra

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
1. A Question Of Relevance
2. The Woman And The Man
3. The Experience Of God
4. Creation And Meditation
5. What Is Contemplation?
6. The Teresian Mansions
7. Conditions For Growth: St. Teresa
8. The Freedom Of Detachment
9. Fire In The Nights
10. The Transforming Summit
11. The Universal Call
12. Miscellaneous Matters
13. Discerning Growth
14. Locutions And Visions
15. Friendship
16. Spiritual Direction
17. Liberating Completion
Notes
Index P. 345

Additional Info
Fr. Thomas Dubay spends several months every year giving conferences and retreats to religious, particularly to contemplative Carmelites. This book is the fruit of many years of his study and experience in spiritual direction, and in it he synthesizes the teachings on prayer of the two great doctors of the Church on prayer- St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila- and the teaching of Sacred Scripture.

But the teaching that Fr. Dubay synthesized is not collected from Teresa and John for contemplatives alone. It is meant for every Christian and is based on the Gospel imperative of personal prayer and the call to holiness. All the major elements of these great teachers are ordered, commented on and put in the context of their scriptural foundations. Here is an outstanding book on prayer and the spiritual life, written by one of the best spiritual directors and retreat masters of our time and based on the writings of two of the greatest mystical doctors of the Church.