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050 00 $aBX4700.T4$bA45 1996
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100 1 $aAhlgren, Gillian T. W.,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95093867
245 10 $aTeresa of Avila and the politics of sanctity /$cGillian T.W. Ahlgren.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c1996.
300 $aix, 188 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-185) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tWomen and the Pursuit of Holiness in Sixteenth-Century Spain --$g2.$tFilling the Void: The Vocation of Teresa de Jesus --$g3.$tThe Right to Write: Authority and Rhetorical Strategy in Teresa's Works --$g4.$tApologia por la Mistica Femenina: Teresa's Theological Agenda --$g5.$tPreter Naturam? Posthumous Debates on Teresa's Orthodoxy --$g6.$tTeresa la Santa: Alone of All Her Sex? --$tAppendix: Primary and secondary sources of inquisitional inquiries regarding Teresa de Jesus and her works.
520 $aTeresa of Avila, one of history's most beloved mystics, wrote during a time of intense ecclesiastical scrutiny of texts. The determination of the Counter-Reformation Church to dominate religious life and control the content of theological writing significantly influenced Teresa's career as reformer and writer. Gillian T. W. Ahlgren explores the theological and ecclesiastical climate of sixteenth-century Spain in this study of the challenges Teresa encountered as a female theologian and mystic.
520 8 $aAs inquisitional censure increased and the authority of women's visions and ecstatic prayer experiences declined, Teresa's written self-expressions became, of necessity, less direct. Her later writing was heavily encoded and scholars have only recently begun to decipher those protective codes.
520 8 $aAhlgren demonstrates how Teresa's rhetorical style and theological message were directly responsive to the climate of suspicion created by the Inquisition and how they thus constituted a challenge to sixteenth-century assumptions about women.
520 8 $aThe only female theologian to be published in late sixteenth-century Spain, Teresa sought to provide a clear defense of mystical experience, particularly that of women. Ahlgren suggests that the rhetorical strategies Teresa developed to protect women's visionary experiences were subsequently used by Church officials to rewrite aspects of her life and thought, transforming her into the model for official Counter-Reformation sanctity.
600 00 $aTeresa,$cof Avila, Saint,$d1515-1582.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80037617
650 0 $aChristian women saints$zSpain$vBiography.
650 0 $aCounter-Reformation$zSpain.
650 0 $aWomen$xReligious life$zSpain$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hBX4700.T4$iA45 1996