Ruth Burrows OCD

Burns & Oates are proud to reissue Ruth Burrows' critically acclaimed work of spiritual theology, Guidelines for Mystical Prayer. When first published in 1976, spiritual theology as reflection on spiritual experience was a growing trend; but at the same time, there was a new interest in, and a return to, the classical Carmelite theology of prayer, with an effort to...

Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite nun, and the author of three outstanding books on prayer - Essence of Prayer, Guidelines for Mystical Prayer and Interior Castle Explored (all published by Continuum). Before the Living God is her autobiography - the account of a life empty of outward incident after her early years, but rich with her own spiritual growth. She...