false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185290945m/1566242.jpg 612670 10 This is the crowning spiritual work of the only woman other than Teresa of Avila to be granted the title of Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. This volume was simply called "my book" by the fourteenth-century Italian saint. The aim of her book (one of the first books to see print in Spain, Germany, Italy, and England), says Dr. Noffke in her Foreword, was "the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern." Catherine was "a mystic whose plunge into God plunged her deep into the affairs of society, Church and the souls who came under her influence." Professor Noffke goes on to call The Dialogue "a great tapestry to which Catherine adds stitch upon stitch until she is satisfied that she has communicated all she can of what she has learned of the way of God." In this, the sixth centenary of the great Dominican's death, we live in a time so badly in need of her sense of institutional reform as flowing from Divine truth, love and charity. Dr. Noffke says: "In the opening pages of The Dialogue Catherine presents a series of questions or petitions to God the Father each of which receives a response and amplification. There is the magnificent symbolic portrayal of Christ as the bridge. There are specific discussions of discernment, tears (true and false spiritual emotion), truth, the sacramental heart ('mystic body') of the Church, divine providence, obedience…. It is not so much a treatise to be read as it is a conversation to be entered into with earnest leisure and leisurely earnest." 599126 4 1980 Catherine of Siena : The Dialogue (Classics of Western Spirituality) total:30|5:12|4:10|3:5|2:2|1:1| 30 120 68 3 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 21:12:26 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 21:09:44 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Apr 21 00:24:24 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 00:55:29 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Feb 27 19:20:30 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 19:21:11 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Nov 28 09:38:05 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 09:38:05 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 21 12:31:29 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 12:31:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 14 05:40:07 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 05:40:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 16:27:22 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 16:27:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 28 20:20:28 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 20:20:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 10 08:32:55 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 08:32:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jun 29 06:03:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 06:04:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 06 14:11:30 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 14:11:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jun 02 18:03:42 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 18:03:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 19 10:02:40 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 10:02:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 14 15:18:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 15:18:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 08 21:14:27 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 21:14:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 08 21:14:17 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 21:14:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Apr 19 06:24:02 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 06:24:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 16 17:09:11 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 17:09:22 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Apr 11 17:48:25 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 17:48:25 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Mar 25 15:43:28 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 15:43:28 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1566242