Review: A Taste of the Mind of the person, the nun, and the Saint, St.Teresa of Avila.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
This book gives a taste of the mind of St. Teresa, the person, the nun, and the saint. The book has something for both the scholar and the general reader. The beginning is for scholars and speaks at length of manuscripts and translations. Later,when Teresa herself is speaking, she addresses the nuns in her convent, her spiritual daughters. She speaks of three kinds of prayer: vocal, mental, and contemplative and adresses the goals, method, and potential of each. She analyzes the Pater Noster, line by line, to explain how sublime it truly is. She speaks of her own failings and comes across very humanely. The general reader should definitely read The Life and Prayers of St. Teresa of Avila in the Wyatt North series first. In many respects, to this reader, her methods seem quite consistent with the mysticism of other traditions.