Teresa of Ávila
A Satirical Critique
Written work
A Satirical Critique
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A brief piece of courtly humour in which Teresa roasts four men, including John of the Cross, whom she reproaches that 'it would be very bad if we could seek God only when we were dead to the world'. It shows her wit and her freedom of judgement before learned men.
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Authorship note
Written in Ávila early in 1577 at Bishop Álvaro de Mendoza's request, as a mock judgement of the answers of John of the Cross, Julián de Ávila, Francisco de Salcedo and her brother Lorenzo to the words 'Seek yourself in Me'.
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English
Teresa of Ávila
A Satirical Critique (en Collected Works, vol. 3)
The Conscious LibraryA Satirical Critique (en Collected Works, vol. 3)
ICS Publications, 1985
Translation: Kieran Kavanaugh y Otilio Rodríguez
ISBN 9780935216769
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
- Maxims (Counsels) · 1580
- 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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