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The Spiritual Genius of Saint Therese of Lisieux
Jean Guitton captures the essence of Therese of Lisieux in much the same way a gifted photographer captures his subject. The result is an intimate portrait of the intellect, charm, and spiritual vision of the saint widely known as the "Little Flower.
- GenresSpirituality
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Jean Guitton
243 books24 followersJean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian.
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November 7, 2014
Quick review of this book.
This book is more like a very non-fiction book. What intrest me from this book is the Seven Key Terms from Therese.
1.Love of the human condition
2.A sense of Reality
3.God and human suffering
4.Heaven and Earth
5.Love and Purgatory
6.Effortless effort
7.Unreal time and everlasting present.
It's have some citation from old book, which refer me to read another classic book titled "End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life" written by 'Fr. Charles Arminjon'.
At the end of the book, there is a timeline life of St. Therese of Lisieux.
Not a lot of highlights to share since it's already lighlights like books, and the OCR kinda bad, but just this:
It will be as if, as St Augustine says, God were to transfer his own Heart to us, so that we could love and rejoice with all the energy of the love and joys of God himself
...Eit voluntati plenitudo pacis-" For then all human longing will be assuaged....
This book is more like a very non-fiction book. What intrest me from this book is the Seven Key Terms from Therese.
1.Love of the human condition
2.A sense of Reality
3.God and human suffering
4.Heaven and Earth
5.Love and Purgatory
6.Effortless effort
7.Unreal time and everlasting present.
It's have some citation from old book, which refer me to read another classic book titled "End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life" written by 'Fr. Charles Arminjon'.
At the end of the book, there is a timeline life of St. Therese of Lisieux.
Not a lot of highlights to share since it's already lighlights like books, and the OCR kinda bad, but just this:
It will be as if, as St Augustine says, God were to transfer his own Heart to us, so that we could love and rejoice with all the energy of the love and joys of God himself
...Eit voluntati plenitudo pacis-" For then all human longing will be assuaged....
November 18, 2021
Un texto un tanto forzado para mostrar la supuesta genialidad de la santa. El libro adquiere otro matiz cuando se le observa como una descripción de una propuesta para una mística en una época desacralizada. Teresa de Lisieux es una santa que contrario a María Galgani, parece mesurada y cuerda. La casi inexistencia de asistencias divinas, su amor por el "mundo", la devoción mariana simple son aspectos que hacen atractiva la experiencia de vida de la francesa para los cristianos hodiernos. No por otro aspecto estaría interesado Jean Guitton en esta doncella.
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