This innovative book offers an original insight into the context and times of St Teresa of Avila (1515 1582) as well as exploring her contemporary relevance from the perspective of some of the foremost thinkers and scholars in the Teresian field today including Professors Julia Kristeva, Rowan Williams and Bernard McGinn. As well as these academic approaches there will be chapters by friars and nuns of the Carmelite order living out the Carmelite charism in today s world. The book addresses both theory and practice, and crosses traditional disciplinary and denominational boundaries...