Santa Teresa de Jesus e los letrados

• Autor(a) principal: Vechina, Jeremias Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2015.2524

Teresa de Jesus attended no university but all recognise in her a more than average culture. She was always anxious to learn and reading was her favourite pastime. To this tendency we must add the relations she maintained with the greatest theologians of her time, whom she sought out of personal necessity. Teresa was conscious of the divorce between theologians and spiritualists and wished to remedy this great evil. All were losing by maintaining the situation. From divorce it passed on to attack, and the inquisition fell into the hands of the theologians, with the latter subsequently persecuting the spiritualists. Teresa confesses to being a friend of the ‘lettered’. As well as this culture acquired through her friendly, intimate relations with certain theologians, from the school of prayer Teresa learnt a science that she did not find in books. The Living Book is her Master.