Mother Teresa’s Mysticism
A Christo-Ecclesio-Humano-centric Mysticism
Robert M. Garrity
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.
| ISBN: | 978-1-943901-03-6 |
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| LCCN: | 2017930447 |
| Format: | 6.14x9.21” B&W soft cover |
| Size: | 208 pages |
| Publication: | 19 May 2017 |
| Price: | $ 13.95 USD |
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Contents : Chapter Headings
- Prologue: A Vision of Christ in the Poor
Part I: A Christo-Ecclesio-Humano-centric Mysticism
- Mysticism as Experiential Knowledge of God
- Understanding Mysticism
- The Mysticism of the Dark Night
- A Mysticism of Suffering and Darkness
- Insights from St. John of the Cross
- A Mysticism of Christ and His Church and His Poor
- A Preliminary Theological Assessment
- Further Analysis, Further Questions
Part II: Mother Teresa’s Impact on Current Theology - A “Mystical” Theology
- An Experiential Christology
- A Soteriology of the Divine “Thirst”
- An Implicit Pneumatology
- The Anthropology of Being Created in the Divine Image
- A Church Renewed
- A Spirituality for All
- Interreligious Dialogue
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
This book is recommended for:
- Courses on Mother Teresay
- Studies on Social Justice
- Studies on Mysticism
- Parish Book Discussion Groups