Before the Living God
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Before the Living God
By (Author) Ruth Burrows OCD
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Burns & Oates Ltd
6th May 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Religious and spiritual figures
Spirituality and religious experience
Religious communities and monasticism
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
271.971092
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
149g
Description
Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite nun, and the author of three outstanding books on prayer - Essence of Prayer, Guidelines for Mystical Prayer and Interior Castle Explored (all published by Continuum). This book is her autobiography - the account of a life empty of outward incident after herearly years, but rich with her own spiritual growth. She writes of the Christian's relationship with others and with God, of prayer, of the life of the Spirit. Shepresents these ideals in no abstract way, but in the intimately personal terms of one individual's- her own- struggle to live them to the full.
Reviews
Title listed under 'Books received' in Fairacres Chronicle, Summer 2008
"This reissue of a favourite autobiography is welcome for its sharp self-awareness." Reviewed in The Tablet, September 2009.
Author Bio
Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite Nun from Quidenham in Norfolk, UK. She is the author of a number of bestselling books including Guidelines for Mystical Prayer and Essence of Prayer.
