Overview

Full Product Details

9781945275012

Table of Contents

Reviews

Directors of souls and the masters of the spiritual life will draw from it abundant supplies of enlightenment and the counsels necessary to enable them to solve the many complicated questions that they will encounter. What pleases me is the simplicity, the clearness, and the precision of his exposition, and still more, the solidity of the teaching. -Cardinal A. Steinhuber [His Holiness Pope St. Pius X] is happy to see that now, thanks to Fr. Poulain, directors of consciences possess a work of great worth and high utility. He not only relies on the incontestable doctrine of the old masters who have treated this very difficult subject, but he presents these teachings, which constitute his authorities, under the form that our age requires. -Cardinal Merry del Val The fruit of over forty years of patient labour... it has already passed through many editions in the author's own country, has been translated into many languages, and has received the express approval and blessing of the Holy Father; and we are glad now to welcome it in its English dress, in the hope it may do in England the good work it has done elsewhere... Pere Poulain's book is a description of the highroad of prayer and a chart for the use of the traveller. He gives the sign-posts and the stopping-places; he warns us of the dangerous corners; from the experience of those who have traversed the country he gives rules of guidance for those who will follow after. For these more than for anyone else he has laboured, and for these in proportion as they have themselves made progress in the journey. -The Tablet. A first-class text-book of Mystical Theology... nothing important is omitted... has a good bibliographical index... is well translated.... May it soon be found in every monastic and clerical Library and on the shelves of the educated layman. -The Universe. The translation is admirably done and the fulness of treatment of a supremely difficult subject in all its possible bearings is beyond praise... A carefully drawn up bibliography of mystical writers adds value to an already extremely useful book. No community, whether of men or women, should be without this book. -Catholic Book-Notes. A perfect storehouse of information on the whole subject of prayer... this is a work which should be treasured by all who aspire, as we all lawfully may, to know something experimentally here below of that Union of God which is to be our happiness hereafter. The translation is excellently done. -The Month. This valuable book... ought without doubt to find a place in all theological libraries... As a work deserving close study from clergy and religious orders it is invaluable, and as a work of reference it will be also of much use to the studious Catholic layman. ' -The Catholic Times.

Directors of souls and the masters of the spiritual life will draw from it abundant supplies of enlightenment and the counsels necessary to enable them to solve the many complicated questions that they will encounter. What pleases me is the simplicity, the clearness, and the precision of his exposition, and still more, the solidity of the teaching. -Cardinal A. Steinhuber [His Holiness Pope St. Pius X] is happy to see that now, thanks to Fr. Poulain, directors of consciences possess a work of great worth and high utility. He not only relies on the incontestable doctrine of the old masters who have treated this very difficult subject, but he presents these teachings, which constitute his authorities, under the form that our age requires. -Cardinal Merry del Val The fruit of over forty years of patient labour... it has already passed through many editions in the author's own country, has been translated into many languages, and has received the express approval and blessing of the Holy Father; and we are glad now to welcome it in its English dress, in the hope it may do in England the good work it has done elsewhere... P re Poulain's book is a description of the highroad of prayer and a chart for the use of the traveller. He gives the sign-posts and the stopping-places; he warns us of the dangerous corners; from the experience of those who have traversed the country he gives rules of guidance for those who will follow after. For these more than for anyone else he has laboured, and for these in proportion as they have themselves made progress in the journey. -The Tablet. A first-class text-book of Mystical Theology... nothing important is omitted... has a good bibliographical index... is well translated.... May it soon be found in every monastic and clerical Library and on the shelves of the educated layman. -The Universe. The translation is admirably done and the fulness of treatment of a supremely difficult subject in all its possible bearings is beyond praise... A carefully drawn up bibliography of mystical writers adds value to an already extremely useful book. No community, whether of men or women, should be without this book. -Catholic Book-Notes. A perfect storehouse of information on the whole subject of prayer... this is a work which should be treasured by all who aspire, as we all lawfully may, to know something experimentally here below of that Union of God which is to be our happiness hereafter. The translation is excellently done. -The Month. This valuable book... ought without doubt to find a place in all theological libraries... As a work deserving close study from clergy and religious orders it is invaluable, and as a work of reference it will be also of much use to the studious Catholic layman. ' -The Catholic Times.

Author Information

Fr. Augustin Poulain, SJ (1836-1919) Reverend Père Augustin Francois Poulain was born at Cherbourg, France, on December 15, 1836. After pursuing higher studies in philosophy and science, in 1858 he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Angers. He made his final vows at the École Sainte-Geneviève in 1877. Jesuits receive many years of higher education, and Poulain did well in philosophy and science, while pursuing further studies in theology and mathematics. He was ordained a priest in 1870, and served in the Jesuits with various duties, including professor, supervisor, director of an artists' guild, and librarian. He died a holy death on July 19, 1919. He was of a naturally witty and happy disposition and diffused gladness all around him; the clearness of his mind is manifest in all he wrote.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available