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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> St. John of the Cross was doubtless a profound contemplative theolo- gian and poet but in an unusual combination he was at the same time a co-founder reformer and busy administrator. Although we do not possess as many facts as we should like concerning the events of his life we do have enough to fashion some idea of his education as well as of the bizarre sixteenth-century complexities in which he became in- volved as a founder with St. Teresa of the Discalced Carmelites. St. John of the Cross could hardly have gained the title of Mystical Doctor if he himself had not been one of the Church’s greatest mystics but a great saint and mystic he would never have been without severe purify- ing trials many of which were occasioned by his mission to assist St. Teresa in the work of her Reform. Out of his own experience in life one of his several sources he gathered materials for deep reflection and the ultimate construction of his doctrinal synthesis. His poetry too was partly the fruit of his darknesses. Knowledge of his life then is a necessary background for the reading of his works. With this in mind we are presenting a brief sketch of his life and of a few of the intricate problems in the history of the Reform which left their mark on him. (SP)