Download or read book The Inner Life and the Writings of Dame Gertrude More written by Augustine Baker and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of Dame Gertrude More written by Gertrude More and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gertrude More written by Arthur F. Marotti and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude More belongs to a tradition of mystical writers who believed in the value of the via negativa, a path to union with God by way of total self-abnegation and the emptying of the mind of set ideas and images. Her only book-length work, THE SPIRITVAL EXERCISES (Paris, 1658), is a collection of her writing assembled by Dom Augustine Baker, OSB, and published some thirty-three years after her death. Some of More’s other verse and prose appears in the biography that Baker composed, but her SPIRITVAL EXERCISES remains the main text she has bequeathed to her order and to posterity. It is reprinted here in full with Arthur F. Marotti's introductory note outlining Gertrude More's life and work.
Download or read book The Writings of Dame Gertrude More written by Dame Gertrude More and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let us consider this from Dame Gertrude More: “And there is one thing in this virtue of obedienceprincipally to be observed and practised, in order to make it pleasing to God and an advancement to the soul, and that is that the thing commanded and done be according to the justice of God. But to this may or will be answered that all that is not sin, if it be commanded us by our Superiors, is according to the justice of God. But if this were so, so many more would come to perfection than do, and it would be far more easy to come to it than it is. But perfection and sanctity must be obtained by other means than by persuading ourselves that we shall come to it by simply doing from time to time what our Superior willeth or biddeth us. If, withal, we do not in our interiorregard God in His justice, as well as the exterior bidding of Superiors, and do it more out of the regard of that than the other, we are-yea, as much as is possible (if we will do it well)-to do it with a simple pure regard of God and His call. For though the interior call never contradicteth the exterior (for if it do, it is to be shrewdly suspected), and, for the most part of things to be done in religion, God calleth a soul by exterior obedience, yet it is His will that in all those things, as well as in those merely internal, the soul should simply regard Him and that as absolutely as if He by Himself had given or commanded her. Neither doth such a soul regard who, or what, or in what manner, God requireth it at her hands, but it sufficeth her that it is He Whom she in simplicity of spirit endeavoureth to regard in all things, without any mean of creatures that exacteth it from her. This maketh the soul indifferent whether she were commanded by an Angel or a worm, if it were God's will rather to command her and signify His will to her by the worm-not that she esteem not the Angel in a far higher degree, but because she would not make anything her object, or do anything out of any other respect, than to conform herself to the Divine justice in all things, and regard Him alone in all she did or omitted. And certainly let a soul be persuaded or persuade herself what she will, as a means to arrive to perfection, she shall never find true peace (if she be of a contemplative spirit, and be not defective in her natural judgment) but by following the Divine call, and regarding that in all she doth or omitteth. And though she do all that Superiors command, yet she should do it with as little regard of them, and as much of God, as if He had immediately commanded her by Himself. And so much as God, concurring by His grace, with her care and diligence, shall enable her to work in this observation of the Divine call, so much the more light shall she have for the observing of it, so much the more profit and peace will she find in her own soul, and so much the more shall she walk according to the justice of God. And by how much the more our works do partake of this, by so much are they worth, and no more; for, as Tauler saith, "God rewardeth no works but His own."”
Download or read book The inner life and the writings of Dame Gertrude More written by Edward Benedict Weld-Blundell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Writings of Dame Gertrude More Classic Reprint written by Gertrude More and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Writings of Dame Gertrude More And if there be somewhat in the latter part the very same as what is said in the beginning, it will not much annoy, since good advice cannot be too often repeated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Life and Death of Dame Gertrude More written by Augustine Baker and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inner Life and the Writings of Dame Gertrude More written by Benedict Weld-Blundell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dame Gertrude More written by Dame Frideswide Sandeman and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Benedictine nuns in exile in the seventeenth century written by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns' personal experiences, illustrating the tensions between theory and practice in the ideal of being dead to the world. It shows how Benedictine convents were both cut-off and enclosed yet very much in touch with the religious and political developments at home, but also proposes a different approach to the history of nuns, with a study of emotions and the senses in the cloister, delving into the textual analysis of the nuns' personal and communal documents to explore aspect of a lived spirituality, when the body which so often hindered the spirit, at times enabled spiritual experience.
Download or read book Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters written by Marion Ann Taylor and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of women interpreters of the Bible is a neglected area of study. Marion Taylor presents a one-volume reference tool that introduces readers to a wide array of women interpreters of the Bible from the entire history of Christianity. Her research has implications for understanding biblical interpretation--especially the history of interpretation--and influencing contemporary study of women and the Bible. Contributions by 130 top scholars introduce foremothers of the faith who address issues of interpretation that continue to be relevant to faith communities today, such as women's roles in the church and synagogue and the idea of religious feminism. Women's interpretations also raise awareness about differences in the ways women and men may read the Scriptures in light of differences in their life experiences. This handbook will prove useful to ministers as well as to students of the Bible, who will be inspired, provoked, and challenged by the women introduced here. The volume will also provide a foundation for further detailed research and analysis. Interpreters include Elizabeth Rice Achtemeier, Saint Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine Mumford Booth, Anne Bradstreet, Catherine of Siena, Clare of Assisi, Egeria, Elizabeth I, Hildegard, Julian of Norwich, Thérèse of Lisieux, Marcella, Henrietta C. Mears, Florence Nightingale, Phoebe Palmer, Faltonia Betitia Proba, Pandita Ramabai, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, St. Teresa of Avila, Sojourner Truth, and Susanna Wesley.
Download or read book Mysticism written by Evelyn Underhill and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mysticism" is one of most celebrated books on the subject. The spirit of the book is romantic, engaged, and theoretical rather than historical or scientific. Underhill has little use for theoretical explanations and the traditional religious experience, formal classifications or analysis. She dismisses William James' pioneering study, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and his "four marks of the mystic state" (ineffability, noetic quality, transcience, and passivity). Excerpt: "All men, at one time or another, have fallen in love with the veiled Isis whom they call Truth. With most, this has been a passing passion: they have early seen its hopelessness and turned to more practical things. But others remain all their lives the devout lovers of reality: though the manner of their love, the vision which they make to themselves of the beloved object varies enormously. Some see Truth as Dante saw Beatrice: an adorable yet intangible figure, found in this world yet revealing the next."
Download or read book MYSTICISM Complete Edition written by Evelyn Underhill and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The spirit of "Mysticism" is romantic, engaged, and theoretical rather than historical or scientific. Underhill has little use for theoretical explanations and the traditional religious experience, formal classifications or analysis. She dismisses William James' pioneering study, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and his "four marks of the mystic state" (ineffability, noetic quality, transcience, and passivity). Excerpt: "All men, at one time or another, have fallen in love with the veiled Isis whom they call Truth. With most, this has been a passing passion: they have early seen its hopelessness and turned to more practical things. But others remain all their lives the devout lovers of reality: though the manner of their love, the vision which they make to themselves of the beloved object varies enormously. Some see Truth as Dante saw Beatrice: an adorable yet intangible figure, found in this world yet revealing the next."
Download or read book Spirit Faith and Church written by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contradictions are legion when it comes to women and spirituality. In Christian cultures, the worth of the female sex is highly ambivalent, since virginity and motherhood are construed respectively as badges of purity and fruitfulness, whilst the biological processes which underlie them are considered taboo or impure. Throughout history, women are in turn represented as inferior, defective creatures or as privileged ‘empty vessels’ in their relationship with the divine. This polarized conception of woman has influenced the way in which religious institutions, learned writers, or indeed women themselves consider the female personal and collective relationship with the supernatural, with the divine, and with the institutions which represent it. Through eleven original essays, this volume questions how women from the English-speaking world have negotiated their roles in the spiritual and religious spheres. From early-modern Catholics and Puritan groups to twenty-first century nuns, Anglican ministers and Mormons, how did women define their roles in male-dominated institutions? How did they react to the public perceptions of their bodies as either incompatible with or facilitating access to the divine? The questions at the core of this book hinge upon the articulation between the female self (body and soul) and its experience of the preternatural, of faith, and of institutionalized groups. Are there specific forms of female spirituality and do they lead to a feminized/feminist conception of God?
Download or read book The Dublin Review written by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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