Enkindling Love: The Legacy of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross (Mapping the Tradition)

Much recent scholarship on Paul has searched for implicit narratives behind Pauls scriptural allusions, especially in the wake of Richard B. Hays' groundbreaking work on the apostle's appropriation of Scripture. A. Andrew Das reviews six proposals for "grand thematic narratives" behind the logic of Galatianspotentially, six explanations for the fabric of Paul's theology: the covenant (N. T. Wright); the influx of nations to Zion (Terence Donaldson); Isaac's near sacrifice (Scott Hahn, Alan Segal); the Spirit as cloud in the wilderness (William Wilder); the Exodus (James Scott, Sylvia Keesmaat); and the imperial cult (Bruce Winter et al.). Das weighs each of these proposals exegetically and finds them wantingmore examples of what Samuel Sandmel famously labeled "parallelomania" than of sound exegetical method. He turns at last to reflect on the risks of (admittedly alluring) totalizing methods and lifts up a seventh proposal with greater claim to evidence in the text of Galatians: Paul's allusions to Isaiah's servant passages. Enkindling Love Chronicles The Journey Toward A Living Partnership With God, As Articulated By Two Of Christianity' Great Mystical Teachers. Excerpts From The Seven Moradas (dwelling Places) Of Teresa Of Avila's Interior Castle Are Held Together With Selections From John Of The Cross's Dark Night Of The Soul, Spiritual Canticle, And The Living Flame Of Love, In Order To Show Stages Of Growth And Transformation As This Partnership Moves From Its Nascent Potential Through Deepening Friendship And Intimacy To The Full Fruition Of The Mystical Life. Moving Through The Process Via Textual Passages And Commentary, Readers Are Invited To Consider God's Desire For Partnership With Us And How The Love Of God Actively Invites Us Into Deeper Relationship Not Only With God But Also With Self And Other. Because Teresa And John Experienced God's Love As A Transforming Power, They Teach That It Is A Participatory Reality That Shapes And Remakes Us, Even As If Invites Us To Collaborate With God In The Remaking Of Our World. Introduction -- Excerpts From Teresa's Interior Castle -- John Of The Cross -- Locating Teresa And John In The Larger Christian Mystical Tradition: A Complicated Reception. Gillian T.w. Ahlgren. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 159-163) And Indexes. Enkindling Love chronicles the journey toward a living partnership with God, as articulated by two of Christianity's great mystical teachers. Excerpts from the seven dwelling places of Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle are held together with selections from John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle, and The Living Flame of Love, in order to show stages of growth and transformation. The book chronicles our partnership with God as we accept the divine invitation to deepening friendship and intimacy and begin to live in the full fruition of the mystical life. Moving through the process via textual passages and commentary, readers are invited to consider how the love of God actively invites us into deeper relationship not only with God but also with self and other. Because Teresa and John experienced God's love as a transforming power, they teach that it is a participatory reality that shapes and remakes us, even as it invites us to collaborate with God in the remaking of our world-- Source other than Library of Congress Enkindling Love chronicles the journey toward a living partnership with God, as articulated by two of Christianity's great mystical teachers. Excerpts from the seven moradas (dwelling places) of Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle are held together with selections from John of the Cross’s Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle, and The Living Flame of Love, in order to show stages of growth and transformation as this partnership moves from its nascent potential through deepening friendship and intimacy to the full fruition of the mystical life. Moving through the process via textual passages and commentary, readers are invited to consider God’s desire for partnership with us and how the love of God actively invites us into deeper relationship not only with God but also with self and other. Because Teresa and John experienced God’s love as a transforming power, they teach that it is a participatory reality that shapes and remakes us, even as if invites us to collaborate with God in the remaking of our world. The theme of Enkindling Love is God's desire for partnership with us. Excerpts from the seven moradas (dwelling places) of Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle are interspersed with brief selections from John of the Cross's mystical trilogy, The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle, and The Living Flame of Love, in order to show the seven stages of growth and transformation as this partnership moves from its nascent potential through deepening friendship and intimacy to the full fruition of the mystical life. Contents Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Excerpts from Teresa’s Interior Castle 3. John of the Cross 4. Locating Teresa and John in the Larger Christian Mystical Tradition: A Complicated Reception 129 Appendix: The Mystical Ladder of Divine Love 155 Bibliography Index of Names and Places Index of Subjects Index of Scripture