A Revolution of Love: The Meaning of Mother Teresa

by David Scott and David Scott

In this Mother Teresa biography by David Scott, we meet the Mother Teresa that we would never have met simply from television interviews or news images. A complex figure, Mother Teresa found her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0829420312
• ISBN13: 9780829420319
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A Remarkable Life, a Remarkable Conversion

Contrary to the opinion of the reviewer below, Mother Teresa's life was marked by a profound conversion and closeness to Jesus Christ --- so close, in fact, that after her initial, remarkable encounters with His presence, she found herself sharing in His passion suffering, as she experienced what St. John of the Cross called "the dark night of the soul." She was so close to Christ that unbeknownst to the world, she felt in her heart and soul the same abandonment He felt on the cross when He asked, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?" What is truly remarkable about her is that while enduring this cross, she never once ceased loving Christ in the poor, and never once ceased to respond to Christ's cry on the Cross, "I thirst." David Scott tells us about letters that have been hidden for years that describe this inner journey into total abandonment to God. Her love for Him, her will to act and obey all the days of her life despite a lack of emotional "feelings" and "consolations" and fundamentalist-type "experiences" was amazing and profound. If she isn't a saint, then no one is!

A Great Book

A Revolution of Love: The Meaning of Mother Teresa is a beautifully written book. In fact, it is so well written, I classify it as a devotional book, one that a person could read as part of his prayers. The book, however, would fascinate even the non-believer, since it is a biography, and one that is loaded with the significance and meaning of a life more than with a catalogue of facts. I couldn't put it down. I was deeply moved, and I kept thinking of people I could send it to--especially those outside the Church. David Scott established a daunting goal--to explain the meaning of Mother Teresa, not only her place in history or in her country, but also her place in the eternal workings of God, her place in the whole salvation history of mankind. And he succeeded beautifully and with very few words. The book is impressionistic in the best sense of the word. I am left with a picture of such illuminative beauty amid the blood-soaked, dark, twisted and brutal landscape of modern times-a landscape which Scott also brilliantly evokes. Very ably, Scott shows that God sent Mother Teresa to send a message of utmost importance to the world. I couldn't help but think that for all the publicity Divine Providence ordained she should get, the world still has not listened. Yet her life brought me much hope. I simply loved the book.