Francisco de Osuna: The Third Spiritual Alphabet (Classics of Western Spirituality)
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Francisco de Osuna was born in the Seville region of Spain on the eve of that country's golden age of mysticism that saw the sublime achievements of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. Osuna entered the Order of Friars Minor of the Regular Observance when Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneroswas spearhearding a reform movement that encouraged believers to nourish a simple, Christ-centered, inner spiritualit In the midst of the controversy over the nature of true interior prayer that raged during the 1520s between the advocates of recollection and those who practiced abandon, Osuna wrote a series of maxims as a practical guide for recollecti These he arranged into a series of 'Spiritual Alphabets,' the third of which appears in this volume.
