Teresa of Ávila
Maxims (Counsels)
Traditional attribution
Maxims (Counsels)
Avisos
Sixty-nine counsels for religious life (on silence, humility, charity in community) in a sententious tone foreign to Teresa's digressive style, which has cast doubt on their authorship. They are included here as an attributed work, part of the published corpus since 1588.
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Authorship note
A collection of short maxims published by Fray Luis de León in 1588. Modern scholarship (Efrén/Steggink, Tomás Álvarez) holds that much of it is not Teresa's but from her Carmelite circle; only a core is accepted as hers.
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Other works by Teresa of Ávila
- The Book of Her Life · 1565
- The Way of Perfection · 1566
- The Interior Castle (The Mansions) · 1577
- The Book of the Foundations · 1582
- Spiritual Testimonies (Accounts of Conscience) · 1581
- Meditations on the Song of Songs · 1567
- Soliloquies (Exclamations of the Soul to God) · 1569
- Constitutions · 1567
- On Making the Visitation · 1576
- Poems · 1570
- Letters · 1582
- A Satirical Critique · 1577
- Complete Works (collected editions) · 1588
- Response to a Spiritual Challenge · 1573
- Ordinances for a Confraternity · 1571
- Seven Meditations on the Lord's Prayer · 1630
Sources
- Teresa de Jesús. Obras completas. Transcripción, introducciones y notas de Efrén de la Madre de Dios y Otger Steggink. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1962 (ediciones posteriores revisadas).
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