Before the Living God
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780860124399
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 05/06/2008
Width: 12.9 cm
Height: 19.8 cm
Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite nun, and the author of three outstanding books on prayer - "Essence of Prayer", "Guidelines for Mystical Prayer" and "Interior Castle Explored" (all published by Continuum).This book is her autobiography - the account of a life empty of outward incident after her early years, but rich with her own spiritual growth. She writes of the Christian's relationship with others and with God, of prayer, of the life of the Spirit. She presents these ideals in no abstract way, but in the intimately personal terms of one individual's- her own- struggle to live them to the full.
Title listed under 'Books received' in Fairacres Chronicle, Summer 2008 "This reissue of a favourite autobiography is welcome for its sharp self-awareness." Reviewed in The Tablet, September 2009.