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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... body , the heavenly Jerusalem , are the transcendent models of the sacred indwelling of the divine in the profane . These sacred places embody the movement of sacred time ; they are witness to the hope of redemption toward which sacred ...
... body , the heavenly Jerusalem , are the transcendent models of the sacred indwelling of the divine in the profane . These sacred places embody the movement of sacred time ; they are witness to the hope of redemption toward which sacred ...
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... body would become poisoned and the possibility of creating a middle class of professionals , bureaucrats , and intel- 5. Quoted in Americo Castro , De la edad conflictiva , pp . 169–170 . lectuals would recede ever more . While great ...
... body would become poisoned and the possibility of creating a middle class of professionals , bureaucrats , and intel- 5. Quoted in Americo Castro , De la edad conflictiva , pp . 169–170 . lectuals would recede ever more . While great ...
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... body else He also decided that the most essential quality of a ruler was to be humble and kind . Just as in the music of a madrigal we hear several voices singing in harmony , the humility and meek- ness in Christ's soul harmonized with ...
... body else He also decided that the most essential quality of a ruler was to be humble and kind . Just as in the music of a madrigal we hear several voices singing in harmony , the humility and meek- ness in Christ's soul harmonized with ...
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... body ? If the King is like a shepherd , why should a shepherd want to care for a sickly herd ? Seneca was right when he wrote , ' It is beautiful to lead illustrious people . ' ' Luis de Leon clearly understood that theology was not ...
... body ? If the King is like a shepherd , why should a shepherd want to care for a sickly herd ? Seneca was right when he wrote , ' It is beautiful to lead illustrious people . ' ' Luis de Leon clearly understood that theology was not ...
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Page 160 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Page 91 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 98 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Page 160 - And in thy majesty ride prosperously, ( Because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Page 186 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill, 'that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
Page 81 - And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Page 187 - For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one : for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren...