Guidelines for Mystical Prayer

<p><b>Burns & Oates are proud to reissue Ruth Burrows'' critically acclaimed work of spiritual theology, <i>Guidelines for Mystical Prayer.</i></b><br><br>When first published in 1976, spiritual theology as reflection on spiritual experience was a growing trend; but at the same time there was a new interest in, and a return to, the classical Carmelite theology of prayer, with an effort to formulate that theology in contemporary thought categories.<br><br><i>Guidelines for Mystical Prayer</i> embodies both tendencies. It offers a personal narrative, a reflection on the spiritual history of two gifted people, St Teresa and St John of the Cross; and yet it speaks clearly out of the Carmelite tradition, and in the language of today.<br><br>Strong interest in Carmelite theology of prayer and the spiritual life has continued into the present; the success of Burrows'' <i>Essence of Prayer</i> is testament to this.</p>