TITLE index
| Books by Suzanne Nofke, OP | |
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 Catherine
of Siena(Classics of Western Spirituality Series) Suzanne Nofke, OP This is the crowning spiritual work of the only woman other than Teresa of Avila to be granted the title of Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. This volume was simply called "my book" by the fourteenth-century Italian saint. The aim of her book (one of the first books to see print in Spain, Germany, Italy, and England), says Dr. Noffke in her Foreword, was "the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern." Catherine was "a mystic whose plunge into God plunged her deep into the affairs of society, Church and the souls who came under her influence." Professor Noffke goes on to call The Dialogue "a great tapestry to which Catherine adds stitch upon stitch until she is satisfied that she has communicated all she can of what she has learned of the way of God." In this, the sixth centenary of the great Dominican's death, we live in a time so badly in need of her sense of institutional reform as flowing from Divine truth, love and charity. Dr. Noffke says: "In the opening pages of The Dialogue Catherine presents a series of questions or petitions to God the Father each of which receives a response and amplification. There is the magnificent symbolic portrayal of Christ as the bridge. There are specific discussions of discernment, tears (true and false spiritual emotion), truth, the sacramental heart ('mystic body') of the Church, divine providence, obedience…. It is not so much a treatise to be read as it is a conversation to be entered into with earnest leisure and leisurely earnest." |
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Paulist Press (April 1980) ISBN: 0809122332 Suzanne Noffke, OP has been researching, translating, and interpreting the works of Catherine of Siena since 1976. Her publications include annotated translations of Catherine’s Dialogue, Prayers, and to date three volumes of her Letters as well as a book of essays, Catherine of Siena: Vision Through a Distant Eye.  |
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Prayers of Catherine of Siena Suzanne Nofke, OP 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. This new edition of the only complete English translation of Catherine’s Prayers brings fresh insight through expanded annotation, relating the content of the prayers particularly to the broader contexts of her thought. The translation is based on the critical edition of the original by Giuliana Cavallini. |
Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Authors Choice Press; 2 ed edition (May 2001) ISBN: 0595180604 |
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A book of essays on the theology and spirituality of Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Siena: Vision Through a Distant Eye (originally published by Liturgical Press in 1996) has been out of print for several years now. Author Suzanne Nofke, OP (Racine) has recently had it republished on iUniverse.com. Suzanne Noffke, OP has been researching, translating, and interpreting the works of Catherine of Siena since 1976. Her publications include annotated translations of Catherine’s Dialogue, Prayers, and to date three volumes of her Letters as well as a book of essays, Catherine of Siena: Vision Through a Distant Eye. |
Format: Paperback
Size : 5.5 x 8.5 Pages: 276 ISBN: 0-595-39110-9 Published: May-2006
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