The Making of a Mystic: Seasons in the Life of Teresa of AvilaThis is a passionate book about a gifted woman. It is written from a psychological viewpoint using the developmental point of view of a number of contemporary developmental psychologists, both men and women. It is a critique of contemporary American shallowness and is an apologia for a feminist ethic and a feminist sense of prayer in a world dominated by competition, abstraction, and unthinking labor. |
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... Biography . 3. Avila ( Spain ) -Biography . I. Gross , Toni Perior . II . Title . BX4700.T4G76 1993 282'.092 - dc20 [ B ] 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 92-12040 CIP For Mary Bader CONTENTS * * * * * *
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... Copyright © 1963 by Ted Hughes . Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers . Excerpts from Dorothy Day : A Biography by William D. Miller . Copy- right © 1982 by William D. Miller . Reprinted by - ix - Acknowledgments.
... Copyright © 1963 by Ted Hughes . Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers . Excerpts from Dorothy Day : A Biography by William D. Miller . Copy- right © 1982 by William D. Miller . Reprinted by - ix - Acknowledgments.
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... biography . We use the word develop- mental in its psychological sense . The roots of this book , then , lie in the ... biography . Erikson's study of the young Martin Luther and his prize winning biography of Mahatma Gandhi were ground ...
... biography . We use the word develop- mental in its psychological sense . The roots of this book , then , lie in the ... biography . Erikson's study of the young Martin Luther and his prize winning biography of Mahatma Gandhi were ground ...
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... biography written from a straight- forward psychological perspective . Besides the work of Coles and Erik- son , numerous other less distinguished biographers have ventured into the field of psycho - biography . There are enough of them ...
... biography written from a straight- forward psychological perspective . Besides the work of Coles and Erik- son , numerous other less distinguished biographers have ventured into the field of psycho - biography . There are enough of them ...
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Contents
Childhood | 3 |
Adolescence | 13 |
Patterns of Emergence | 33 |
Middle Adulthood | 47 |
Old Age | 87 |
HER BACKGROUND | 111 |
Family | 113 |
Her Country Spain and Spaniards in the Golden Age | 123 |
The Journey to Her Own Voice | 143 |
Morality | 171 |
Psychology and Prayer | 185 |
Teresas Prayer and Her Psychology of Prayer | 201 |
Teresas Playfulness | 211 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 265 |
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The Making of a Mystic: Seasons in the Life of Teresa of Avila Francis L. Gross Jr. Limited preview - 1993 |
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