Adventures in Prayer - by Noel O'Donoghue (Paperback)

About the Book

One of the most respected and adventurous of writers on the mystical traditions of Christianity, himself a Carmelite, Noel Dermot O'Donoghue has gathered together his definitive reflections on the three great mystical doctors of the Catholic Church: St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross and St Therese of Lisieux. These inter-related essays are the fruit of a lifetime, written in O'Donoghue's richly poetic way.

Book Synopsis

'Searching and moving... combines the sensibility to language and feeling of a poet with an astonishing intellectual boldness... a wonderful and visionary account of orthodox Christianity.'- Rowan Williams

One of the most respected and adventurous of writers on the mystical traditions of Christianity, himself a Carmelite, Noel Dermot O'Donoghue has gathered together his definitive reflections on the three great mystical doctors of the Catholic Church: St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross and St Therese of Lisieux.

These inter-related essays are the fruit of a lifetime, written in O'Donoghue's richly poetic way.

Review Quotes

"I highly recommend O' Donoghue's Adventures in Prayer as a genuine adventure in reading Carmelite classics with a guidance of a gifted scholar who has engaged texts with rare verve and uncommon insight. I expect that anyone who reads this text will want to sample other books by this learned Irishman who spent much of his life in Scotland teaching and writing with a truly creative imagination." --Catholic Books Review

"In church libraries, Adventures in Prayer would be useful as a reference source for a serious study of prayer." --Ré Stooksberry, Congregational Libraries Today

"One of the most perceptive spiritual writers of our time" --Religious Life Review

About the Author

Noel O'Donoghue is the author of many books and articles on Christian mysticism and theology. He was lecturer in Philosophical Theology and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh until his retirement in 1988.