The Wisdom of Angela of Foligno: Poverty, Darkness, and the Consuming Flame - Couverture souple

Mundi Press, Sapientia

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798184866703

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

She screamed in basilicas. She drank the wash-water of lepers. She described a fire that burned without destroying and a darkness that was more real than light. Angela of Foligno was one of the most extraordinary mystics of the medieval world, and her testimony remains as powerful and as unsettling today as it was seven hundred years ago.

The Wisdom of Angela of Foligno: Poverty, Darkness, and the Consuming Flame traces the life and spiritual vision of the Umbrian laywoman who became known as the mistress of theologians. Born around 1248 into a prosperous family in the Italian town of Foligno, Angela lived a conventional life until a shattering conversion in her late thirties set her on a path of radical poverty, severe penance, and mystical encounters of overwhelming intensity. Her experiences, dictated to her Franciscan confessor and preserved in the text known as the Memorial, constitute one of the most vivid and unflinching accounts of divine encounter in the Christian tradition.

The Wisdom of Angela of Foligno: Poverty, Darkness, and the Consuming Flame places Angela within the rich context of thirteenth-century Umbria, the Franciscan movement, and the remarkable generation of women mystics who transformed the spiritual life of medieval Europe. Written in a contemplative, historically grounded style, it offers readers an accessible yet intellectually serious engagement with a figure whose relevance extends far beyond the medieval world.

• The historical world of Franciscan Umbria and the mendicant revolution that shaped Angela's spirituality
• Angela's dramatic conversion, the loss of her family, and her pursuit of radical poverty
• The collaboration between Angela and her scribe Brother Arnaldo, and the problems of expressing the inexpressible
• Her extraordinary visions of the Trinity, the divine darkness, and the consuming fire of divine love
• Angela's teachings on prayer, humility, and the discernment of genuine spiritual experience
• Her legacy and canonization, and what her testimony offers to readers today

For anyone drawn to the great questions of mystical experience, the history of women's spiritual authority, or the enduring human encounter with the sacred, The Wisdom of Angela of Foligno: Poverty, Darkness, and the Consuming Flame offers a compelling portrait of a woman who pursued God with a ferocity that left nothing standing in its path.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798184866703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 159
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