Written work
Meditations on the Song of Songs
Meditaciones sobre los Cantares (Conceptos del amor de Dios)
A commentary, unpublished in her lifetime and risky for a sixteenth-century woman, on verses of the Song of Songs ('Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth', 'Thy breasts are better than wine'). Teresa reads the poem as a description of the prayer of quiet and of union, with an exegetical freedom the Inquisition would not have tolerated in a printed book. It is the clearest witness to her direct reading of Scripture in the vernacular.
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Authorship note
Written around 1566–1567 and revised until 1574. A confessor ordered her to burn it; it survived in copies. Published in 1611 under the title Conceptos del amor de Dios.
Editions and translations
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English
Teresa of Ávila
Meditations on the Song of Songs (en Collected Works, vol. 2)
The Conscious LibraryMeditations on the Song of Songs (en Collected Works, vol. 2)
ICS Publications, 1980
Translation: Kieran Kavanaugh y Otilio Rodríguez
ISBN 9780935216127
Español
Teresa of Ávila
Conceptos del amor de Dios (Bruselas, 1611)
The Conscious LibraryConceptos del amor de Dios (Bruselas, 1611)
Monte Carmelo, 1979
ISBN 9788472390942
Edición facsimilar de la princeps.
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
- Soliloquies (Exclamations of the Soul to God) · 1569
- Constitutions · 1567
- On Making the Visitation · 1576
- Poems · 1570
- Letters · 1582
- A Satirical Critique · 1577
- 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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