Format: Softcover List Price: $14.99 ISBN-13: 978-088270-402-9 Size: tpb Page Count: 350 Available: July 2007 Publisher: Bridge-Logos
Dark Night of the Soul takes readers on a deeply spiritual
journey through challenges, hardships, difficulties, and temptations to
complete union with God. St. John narrates this journey of the soul,
which requires death to self and detachment from the world. In a
step-by-step process, he shows how God can use this “dark night” to
eventually bring our human spirits into great illumination, revealing:
Divine wisdom and the passion of divine love.
How the soul can walk securely through the darkness and the
wonderful effects that are wrought in the believer as a result of
the dark night.
Includes CD of selected excerpts from book.
Saint
John of the Cross (1542-1591) was a poet, priest, philosopher, and
mystic who helped to bring about reform within the Roman Catholic Church
during the sixteenth century. A member of the Carmelite Order, he worked
diligently with Saint Teresa of Avila to return their order to its
proper foundation, a deep devotion to Jesus Christ. As a result of their
efforts, John was imprisoned. Central to Saint John’s beliefs are the
death of the self-life, the mortification of the flesh, and overcoming
the devil, the world, and all temptations so that the soul can be
completely united to God and His love.
Dark Night of the Soul
Saint
John of the Cross (1542-1591) was a poet, priest, philosopher, and
mystic who helped to bring about reform within the Roman Catholic Church
during the sixteenth century. A member of the Carmelite Order, he worked
diligently with Saint Teresa of Avila to return their order to its
proper foundation, a deep devotion to Jesus Christ. As a result of their
efforts, John was imprisoned. Central to Saint John’s beliefs are the
death of the self-life, the mortification of the flesh, and overcoming
the devil, the world, and all temptations so that the soul can be
completely united to God and His love.