Dark Night of the Soul

Name: Dark Night of the Soul
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ISBN: 9781573229746

ISBN-10: 1573229741

ISBN-13: 9781573229746

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Authors: John of John of the Cross, Mirabel Starr, Thomas Moore, Thomas Moore

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What a beautiful translation!..Starr offers us an entryway and a path into this sixteenth-century mystic's mind, and gives us a fine, personal introduction to begin our luminous journey." (Natalie Goldberg, bestselling author of Writing Down the Bones) While imprisoned for his attempts to reform the Church, 16th-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross composed many of his now classic poems of the soul's longing for God. Escaping his captors, John fell into a state of ecstasy and finished Dark Night of the Soul, with additional commentary for other seekers. Now, for the first time, a scholar unaffiliated with the Catholic Church has crafted "an engaging and evocative translation of…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.73" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Mirabai Starr is a published writer of fiction and essays. An adjunct professor of philosophy, religious studies, and Spanish at the University of New Mexico at Taos, she has been studying St. John of the Cross's texts for more than twenty years.



Foreword


Preface


Introduction


Prologue



Night of Sense



Night of the Spirit