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Teresa of Avila on Theology and Shame

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Megan Loumagne
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Abstract

This article examines Teresa of Avila's understanding of the relationship between spiritual dryness, intellectual frustration, and shame. It argues that Teresa presents these experiences as interconnected, as well as spiritually and intellectually valuable. This aspect of Teresa's thought provides important resources for theologians in the contemporary age in its insistence on the necessarily dynamic relationship between the spiritual and the intellectual in the life of the theologian. The article concludes with an examination of shame and its impact on theological developments in our time, as well as the possibilities for integrating shame productively.

Keywords

Teresa of Avilaprayertheologyshamespirituality
Type
Original Article
Information
New Blackfriars , Volume 99 , Issue 1081 , May 2018 , pp. 388 - 402
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Copyright © 2016 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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