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The Loving Struggle. By FRAY JUAN DE LOS ANGELES. Trans. by ELADIA GOMEZ POSTHILL. London: Saint Austin Press. 2001. xxii+205 pp. 41.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-901157-26-1.
It has taken four hundred years for the Lucha espiritual y amorosa entre Dios y el alma by the Spanish Franciscan Fray Juan de los Angeles (1600) to be translated into English. The metaphor of the title is inspired by the story of Jacob wrestling with a stranger in Genesis xxxii, though the work owes at least as much to the imagery of the Song of Songs and the affective spirituality of medieval tradition. It offers...
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