Thérèse of Lisieux : God's gentle warrior

Thérèse of Lisieux : God's gentle warrior / Thomas R. Nevin.

Thérèse of Liseux (1873-1897), also known as St Therese of the Child Jesus & the Holy Face, is popularly named the Little Flower. This work charts the development of Therese's career as a writer. It offers a different understanding of Therese as a theologian for whom love, rather than doc...

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Main Author: Nevin, Thomas R., 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Thérèse, > de Lisieux, Saint, > 1873-1897.
Thérèse, > de Lisieux, Saint, > 1873-1897
Christian saints > France > Lisieux > Biography.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
Christian saints
Lisieux (France) > Biography.
France > Lisieux
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. After the Revolution: Catholicism in France before Thérèse
  • 2. A Short life in brief
  • 3. On her mother: the travails of Zèlie Martin
  • 4. How they paved the little way: Carmel and Carmelites in the time of Thérèse
  • 5. Thérèse writes her self
  • 6. On her theatricality: plays and poetry
  • 7. Tubercular
  • 8. Perfecta caritas: notes for a theology of Thérèse
  • 9. Inconclusions.

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