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The Life of the Servant

The Life of the Servant

Suso, Henry
Suso, Henry
Clark, J. M.

Paperback

PhilosophyReligion General Christian Living

ISBN10: 0718893433
ISBN13: 9780718893439
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: May 29 2014
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
One of the classics of medieval mysticism, this is the autobiographical account of Suso's spiritual journey, as told to a woman who sought his counsel.

If this is not heaven, I do not know what heaven is, for all the suffering that can ever be put into words, could not enable anyone to earn such a reward and for ever possess it.'

A central figure in Christian mystical literature, the Dominican Prior Henry Suso was the author of the seminal work The Life of the Servant. Transcribed by an enlightened amanuensis without his explicit consent, Suso began burning the manuscript until a heavenly missive from God decreed that the text should be spared further desecration. The remaining fragments of that conflagration are vividly resurrected in this volume, elegantly translated by James M. Clark.

Suso's subjective account of the spiritual and invisible world, told in prose of unsurpassed poetic beauty, is reflective of the ardent spirituality of his devotion. Informed by severe

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