Holiness as friendship with Christ: Teresa of Avila

Fluid Figurations: Images of the Divine in the Writings of Gertrude of Helfta, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila

Holiness and Responsibility

English as well as French differentiates the term holy from the term sacred – in fact, Levinas' book "Du sacré au saint" is translated as "From the Sacred to the Holy". This is illustrative of the extent to which the meanings of the two words differ. God is called "The Holy One Blessed be He", but we would find it peculiar to refer to Him as "The Sacred One". By contrast, when referring to plac...

Artur Avila and Marcelo Viana

We exhibit an explicit sufficient condition for the Lyapunov exponents of a linear cocycle over a Markov map to have multiplicity 1. This builds on work of Guivarc’h-Raugi and Gol’dsheid-Margulis, who considered products of random matrices, and of Bonatti-Viana, who dealt with the case when the base dynamics is a subshift of finite type. Here the Markov structure may have infinitely many symbol...

Could Carmelite Spirituality Promote Good Mental Health? A brief Tribute to Saint Teresa of Avila in the 500th anniversary of her birth.

Often it is overlooked that Christian Spirituality involves a personal relationship of a human being with God. It is of interest that both the Protestant Reformers and the exponents of the Catholic Counter Reformation agreed upon this. Two of the greatest exponents of the Counter-Reformation, both of whom were made Doctors of the Church because of their teaching on Prayer were Saint Teresa of A...

Editorial Teresa Romão

Biographical notes: Teresa Romão is an Assistant Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), where she teaches and develops research work in the area of HCI. She is a member of the Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies (CITI-FCT/UNL) and was a Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She studied computer science at F...