Mystical Imagery: Santa Teresa de Jesus and San Juan de La Cruz

by Elizabeth Teresa Howe

The book examines the use of mystical imagery in the literary works of the 16th-century Spanish writers and mystics, Santa Teresa de Jes s and San Juan de la Cruz. In addition to the variety of sources on which they draw and the influence they exercise on later generations, what emerges in the study is a multivalent use of diverse images that is the mystics' means of grappling with the ineffable nature of mystical union.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820406147
• ISBN13: 9780820406145
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 368 Pages