The Names of ChristPaulist Press, 1984 - 385 pages "Whatever it was you expected when you heard about the new Classics of Western Spirituality(TM) series from Paulist Press, forget it. The real thing is better." The Crux of Prayer Luis de León: The Names of Christ translated and introduced by Manuel Duran and William Kluback preface by J. Ferrater Mora As Christ is a source or rather is an ocean which holds in itself all that is sweet and meaningful that belongs to man, in the same way the study of his person, the revelation of the treasure, is the most meaningful and dearest of all knowledge. Luis de León (1527-1591) The Names of Christ is a masterpiece of the Golden Age of Spain. Written in the style of a pastoral novel, the work is a meditation on the philosophical and theological significance of the names of Christ. Based on a careful examination of ten names given Christ in the Scriptures, the book reflects elements of Augustinian, Jewish, and Islamic spirituality that were part of sixteenth-century Spain. Luis de León was born in 1527 in Belmonte, a small village in the Castile region of Spain. An Augustinian friar, a brilliant professor, an artful poet, he was a true Renaissance man whose vision of the fullness of Christ sustained him in the face of persecution at the hands of the Inquisition and infused his writing with a sensitivity that has made The Names of Christ a treasure of Spanish literature and a classic of Catholic mysticism. + |
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... University , Jerusalem , Israel . Albert Deblaere — Professor of the History of Spirituality , Gregorian University , Rome , Italy . Louis Dupre — T L . Riggs Professor in Philosophy of Religion , Yale University , New Haven , Conn ...
... University , Jerusalem , Israel . Albert Deblaere — Professor of the History of Spirituality , Gregorian University , Rome , Italy . Louis Dupre — T L . Riggs Professor in Philosophy of Religion , Yale University , New Haven , Conn ...
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... University of Chicago Divinity School , Chicago , Ill . John Meyendorff — Professor of Church History , Fordham University , Bronx , N.Y. , and Professor of Patristics and Church History , St. Vladimir's Seminary , Tuckahoe , N.Y. ...
... University of Chicago Divinity School , Chicago , Ill . John Meyendorff — Professor of Church History , Fordham University , Bronx , N.Y. , and Professor of Patristics and Church History , St. Vladimir's Seminary , Tuckahoe , N.Y. ...
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... University . Copyright © 1984 by Manuel Durán and William Kluback All rights reserved . No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical , including photocopying , recording ...
... University . Copyright © 1984 by Manuel Durán and William Kluback All rights reserved . No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical , including photocopying , recording ...
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... University of New York . His two most recent books are concerned with the Neo - Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen . The books will be published by Brown University Press and Mercer University Press . He is now completing a study of the ...
... University of New York . His two most recent books are concerned with the Neo - Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen . The books will be published by Brown University Press and Mercer University Press . He is now completing a study of the ...
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