This classic is made newly accessible with the addition of commentary to both aid in understanding the text and to illuminate Teresa of Avila's impressive spiritual lessons. Questions help readers to understand themselves and to reflect on the impact of her insights to their own lives. Readers will recognize the intrinsic worth of Teresa of Avila's teaching and see it as a viable way of understanding the interior life and deepening one's awareness of God. Classics with Commentary, a series in the Christian Classics line devoted to rediscovering classic Christian literature, mines the depths...

Jean-Pierre de Caussade, a French Jesuit spiritual director and writer born in the late seventeenth century, is best known for his belief in the sacredness of the present moment, or the eternal now. His masterpiece, Abandonment to Divine Providence, has been celebrated by spiritual writers as diverse as Richard Foster and Alan Watts for its ability to invoke the mystery of eternity in the now--a tenet of spirituality that resonates across faith traditions. Accompanied by the probing, expert commentary of Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R., this exemplary edition of de Caussade's Abandonment offers...