Tallman, Bruce. Archetypes for Spiritual Direction Discovering the Heroes Within. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 2005. $19.95
To educate anyone effectively it is essential to understand their learning style and personality type. In Archetypes for Spiritual Direction, Bruce Tallman applies this principle to the task of spiritual direction, using as his model the "archetypes" identified by noted psychologist Carl Jung.
Noffke, OP. Suzanne. The Prayers of Catherine Siena. Lincoln, New England: Authors Choice Press, 2001. $22.95
The collected prayers of Catherine of Siena provide a uniquely intimate point of access to the spirituality and theology of this fourteenth-century Italian mystic and reformer. Here we are allowed to “sit in on” and learn from the spontaneous prayer of one who was amazingly honest before her God and in the face of the people and situations she encountered in her daily life. The prayers are rendered in “sense lines” to facilitate meditative reading.
Noffke, OP. Suzanne. Catherine of Siena A Vision Through a Distant Eye. Lincoln, New England: Authors Choice Press, 2006. $20.95
This is the woman whose vision and voice this book evokes in view of feeding our own twentieth-century insight and speaking. The essays in Part One study various aspects of Catherine’s vision in her theology and spirituality. Part Two offers resources for further exploration of Catherine’s person and thought, of her world, and of what others have written of her in English, including an extensive annotated bibliography of works in English up to the date of the original publication of this book in 1996.
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Meade, CSJ, Catherine M. Catherine of Siena: To Purify God’s Church. Stanten Island, New York: Society of St. Paul/Alba House, 2006. $14.95
This presentation of the life of St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) follows the essential stages of her human and spiritual development as exemplified in her symbolic "Tree of Virtue" with its circle of soil, trunk and crown that would evolve, as the tree matures, into the "Tree of the Cross."
O’Driscoll, OP. Mary. Catherine of Siena. Italy: Editions Du Signe, 1994. $15.00
Catherine of Siena. Edited by Henry L. Carrigan Jr. Little Talks With God. Brewster, Massachusetts: Paraclete Press 2001. $14.95.
While in an ecstatic trance, Catherine dictated The Dialogue - presented here in mildly modernized, edited form. In this intense and searching work, the holy saint of Siena offers up petitions to God, filling her conversation with instruction on discernment, true and false.