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Teresa of Avila

The Book of My Life

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Teresa of Avila

By: Teresa of Avila, Mirabai Starr, Tessa Bielecki - foreword
Narrated by: Gabrielle Made, Kathleen Gati
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Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) is one of the most beloved of the Catholic saints. In 1562, during the era of the Spanish Inquisition, Teresa sat down to write an account of the mystical experiences for which she had become famous. The result was this book, one of the great classics of spiritual autobiography.

With this fresh translation of The Book of My Life, Mirabai Starr brings the inimitable Spanish mystic to life for a new generation, with contemporary English that mirrors Teresa's own earthy, vernacular Spanish, and that presents us with - four centuries after Teresa's death - someone we feel we know: a woman intoxicated with God yet filled with an overflowing love for the world.

©2007 Mirabai Starr (P)2018 Random House Audio Biographies & Memoirs Christian Living Christianity History Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

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Great

The book is great, the narration fantastic the translation superb, except the translations of sin into "missing the mark", mortal sin into "grave error". It is a small but big thing. All sin is error, not all error is sin. Etc. But overall fantastic audiobook!!

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Problems with Translation

I have no problems with the book itself, but the Translator takes far too many liberties to mke it more accessible to non Christians and to appease her feminist friends, ruining the work in the process.

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