Mother Teresa's Mysticism: A Christo-Ecclesio-Humano-centric Mysticism - Softcover

Garrity, Robert M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943901031 ISBN 13: 9781943901036

Publisher: Lectio Publishing LLC, 2017

Synopsis

Known simply as Mother Teresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta was born in Macedonia to an Albanian businessman father and deeply religious mother. As a Loreto nun teaching school in India in 1946, after what she described as a “call within a call” to serve Jesus Christ by serving the poor, Teresa instituted the Missionaries of Charity and dedicated herself entirely to serving the poorest of the poor in Calcutta. Her example and leadership would spread throughout the globe. After years of suffering, Teresa died on September 5, 1997. She was canonized in the Catholic Church by Pope Francis on September 4, 2016.

This book proposes that Teresa, through God’s divine intervention, originated a distinctive form of theological knowledge that the author names Christo-ecclesio-humano-centric mysticism, defined as a mystical theology demonstrated, in theory and practice, in both seeing Jesus Christ and serving Jesus Christ in the poorest of the poor. 

God’s gift to Teresa of this experiential knowledge of Christ’s presence in today’s world is shown to be a significant source of theological and pastoral renewal in the Church of the twenty-first century.

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About the Author:

Father Robert M. Garrity, JCL, STD, is Assistant Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University, where he assists the Campus Ministry Department and teaches courses in Scripture, Catechetics, Spirituality, and Canon Law. Ordained for the Diocese of Rockford in 1981, "Father Bob," as he is known to many of his students, has published several articles in canon law in The Jurist and Studia Canonica, and is the author of Resurrection Power! Spiritual Solutions for an Anxious Age, and O Happy Fault: Personal Recovery through Spiritual Growth. Prior to university ministry, he served as Pastor of St. Mary Church in Huntley, Illinois; and with the Marriage Tribunal and Respect Life ministry. He holds a doctorate in sacred theology and a license in canon law, both from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lectio Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1943901031
• ISBN 13: 9781943901036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208