Radcliffe timothy foreword (3 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Cover edges and corners are slightly bumped and rubbed, with a little peeling and bump leading into the pages at the front lower leading corner. Covers are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good Plus. New Edition. 2005. xxviii, 163pp. Laminate has lifted/bubbled up leaving a band across the front and back covers. The book is otherwise in very good condition with no inscriptions, and all contents are tight and clean. "From her earliest years, Catherine of Siena (1347-80) was griped by the mystery of God incarnate. This was the beginning of a life-long love story, a life-long conversion in which Christ spoke to Catherine and she communicated the truth of his being to the world of her time. Creation itself, she says, is an act of love, and Christ is the bridge by which human beings come to realize their full humanity, their inmost nature, which is to love. Mystic, champion of the poor and Church reformer, Catherine was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970. She was unable to write until she was thirty, but she corresponded with Popes, Cardinals, scholars and civic authorities. She was a true daughter of the fourteenth century, famous in her own life time, and yet her thinking and her work seem entirely relevant in the political and ecclesial context of our own time. When Pope Paul VI was asked whether she should be considered a politician, his answer was yes, but in a thoroughly spiritual way; this, he said, is why 'the teaching of this singular woman politician is still meaningful and valuable'.".…

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. new edition. 296 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.