The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, vol. 2
Overview
This volume includes the Spiritual Canticle between the Soul and Christ, The Living Flame of Love, plus John of the Cross’ verse-by-verse commentary on the poems. Also included are Instructions and Cautions, Spiritual Maxims, 17 letters, and 20 shorter poems. Paraphrasing the Song of Songs, Spiritual Canticle explores the image of passionate love as describing the mystical sufferings and longings of a soul enamored with God. The Living Flame of Love is a poem that was composed during or immediately after John of the Cross’ nine month imprisonment at Toledo. Many consider The Living Flame of Love a follow up to The Dark Night of the Soul.
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This volume is also part of the Post-Reformation Catholic Thought and Piety collection.
Key Features
- Contains a variety of John of the Cross works
- Provides insight into sixteenth-century spirituality
- Presents the wisdom of a modern Doctor of the Church
Product Details
- Title: The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, vol. 2
- Author: John of the Cross
- Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
- Publication Date: 1864
- Pages: 271
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Collected Works
- Topic: Post-Reformation, Spirituality
About the Author
John of the Cross (1542–1591) was born Juan de Yepes Alvarez at Fontiveros, Old Castile, Spain. He was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, as well as a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar, and priest. John of the Cross reformed the Carmelite Order and is considered—along with Saint Teresa of Ávila—as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. He is a Doctor of the Church and venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran Traditions.
This volume is also part of the Post-Reformation Catholic Thought and Piety collection.
- Contains a variety of John of the Cross works
- Provides insight into sixteenth-century spirituality
- Presents the wisdom of a modern Doctor of the Church
Top Highlights
“As in the hour of death you will certainly be sorry that you have not employed all your time in the service of God, why is it that you do not now so employ your time, as you will wish you had done when you shall come to die?” (Page 352)
“written under the influence of that love which proceeds from the overflowing mystical intelligence” (Page 2)
“He who seeks not the Cross of Christ, seeks not the glory of Christ.” (Page 347)
“To endure all things with an equable and peaceful mind, not only brings with it many blessings to the soul, but it also enables us, in the midst of our difficulties, to have a clear judgment about them, and to minister the fitting remedy for them.” (Page 359)
“His interior action within it is to kindle it and set it on fire; this is the burning of love, in union with which the will loves most deeply, being now one in love with that flame of fire.” (Page 220)
- Title: The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, vol. 2
- Author: John of the Cross
- Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
- Publication Date: 1864
- Pages: 271
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Collected Works
- Topic: Post-Reformation, Spirituality
John of the Cross (1542–1591) was born Juan de Yepes Alvarez at Fontiveros, Old Castile, Spain. He was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, as well as a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar, and priest. John of the Cross reformed the Carmelite Order and is considered—along with Saint Teresa of Ávila—as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. He is a Doctor of the Church and venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran Traditions.