Overview

An detailed portrait of one of the most influential women in twentieth-century spirituality covers her early days of agnosticism, her championing of contemplative prayer, and her conviction that modern science enhanced, rather than threatened, spirituality. Original.

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Author:   Margaret Cropper
Publisher:   Jewish Lights Publishing
Imprint:   SkyLight Paths Publishing,US
Edition:   Skylight Paths Pub ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9781893361706

ISBN 10:   1893361705
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   14 November 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword to the SkyLight Lives Edition Introduction Note Lucy Menzies:A Memoir 1. Childhood and Girlhood 2. ""I Entered Italy"" 3. Years of Discovery 4. Vocation and Marriage 5. Early Married Years 6. Her Book Called Mysticism 7. The Years before the War 8. The War Years 9. Choice of a Director 10. “In We Are, and On We Must” 11. “Called Out and Settled” 12. A Tremendous Year 13. “In Torment and Effort to Serve the Brethren” 14. Speaking to the Clergy 15. The Revision of the Prayer Book and Matters of Reunion 16. Religious Editor 17. Chiefly about Retreats 18. The Golden Sequence and a Visit to Norway 19. The Last Retreats and Worship 20. Laying Down Tools 21. The Sword Outwears the Sheath 22. Doctor of Divinity and Pacifist 23. The Prayer Group 24. The Last Years Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Index"

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"""An engaging and instructive biography of an extraordinary spiritual woman whose thinking and soulful life offers much for us to consider."" —Dr. Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize–winner and author of Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage"

An engaging and instructive biography of an extraordinary spiritual woman whose thinking and soulful life offers much for us to consider. -Dr. Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage

An engaging and instructive biography of an extraordinary spiritual woman whose thinking and soulful life offers much for us to consider. <strong>Dr. Robert Coles</strong>, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of <em>Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage </em></p>

An engaging and instructive biography of an extraordinary spiritual woman whose thinking and soulful life offers much for us to consider. Dr. Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage

Author Information

Margaret Cropper was a close friend of Evelyn Underhill for many years. She was the author of many volumes of poetry, plays and prayers, and was associated with many movements for the revival of religious drama. Dana Greene is dean of Oxford College of Emory University and a highly respected authority on Evelyn Underhill's life and writing. She is the author of the most comprehensive and scholarly Underhill biography, Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life, and editor of Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill. She also serves as president of the Evelyn Underhill Association http://www.evelynunderhill.org.

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