How did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become one of the most inspiring religious books of all time?
Despite its troubled origins, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics, philosophers, artists, psychoanalysts, and neurologists.
The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written
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