Ryan Salamony

The Compassionate Mother of Carmel: Teresa of Avila and the Carmelite Model for Twenty-First-Century Seekers

Maryland Shared Open Access Repository 2017 Ryan Salamony

The purpose of this document is to, first, analyze the ways that historical contexts like the rise of imperialism and the Spanish Inqui sition impacted Teresa of Avila ’s life , as well as the Christian monastic context out of which her spirituality emerges , and then introduce the reader to Teresa of Avila and Teresian Carmelite spirituality . Through an exploration of her personal history,...