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Therese of Lisieux: God's Gentle Warrior Hardcover – October 12, 2006

by Thomas R. Nevin (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (October 12, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195307216
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195307214
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 1.2 x 6.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding
By Amazon Customer VINE VOICE on April 1, 2007
Format: Hardcover
I originally purchased this book for a bit of pious reading. To be honest, I did not expect anything "new" could easily be found or said about our beloved Therese and her family. What I found was an outstanding study that looks at Therese with "new eyes," so to speak. And the conclusions are extremely powerful and spiritually very strong and nourishing. I especially appreciated Dr. Nevin's use of new sources (the circulaires read in the refrectory during St. Therese's life that would have been a source of inspiration to Therese), along with some photographs that I don't think had ever been published before. I recommend this book highly.
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood book, but...
By David H. Werning on March 22, 2008
Format: Hardcover
There is much that is good about Thomas Nevin's book on St. Therese. As the notes on the dust jacket report, he does offer new readings and even new material concerning the "little flower" (as Therese is known). He begins the book by offering the reader a glimpse into the France of Therese's time: the cultural situation and currents of thought during the late 19th century. He moves on, helpfully, to consider the correspondence of Therese's mother, Zelie Martin, and extrapolates from the letters many insights about Therese's family life and her own development. Another chapter places Therese in the context of the Carmelite tradition, and specifically how the French Carmelites supported and formed her. Nevin also brings Therese's plays and poems to the fore as few others have done (most biographers have preferred to consider only The Story of the Soul and Therese's correspondence), and he summarizes the major themes and ideas of her writings. Perhaps the most interesting chapter focuses on Therese's illnesses and the treatments she received. One gets a good sense of French medical practice in the 19th century, particularly in its treatment of tuberculosis, which allows one to appreciate what Therese suffered during the last year-and-a-half of her life. Indeed the reader begins to marvel at the fact that Therese was composing Manuscript C, letters, and poems during her final illness.
What is surprising about Nevin's book is that despite the evident scholarship employed in writing it, the book takes a decidedly acrimonious and polemical turn in the last two chapters. The catalyst for this change in mood is what Nevin calls Therese's "sense [of] the non-existence of heaven" which he says she experienced during her dark night (297).Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Remarkable, Breakthough Study of a Great Saint
By J. C Marrero on March 15, 2007
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Having read much about her and visited her conventual home in Lisieux, I did not expect this book to be more than another take on the life and spirituality of this most beloved of modern saints. Yet, this book reveals much new biographical detail and sheds new light on the theological writings of this remarkable young woman. Dr. Nevin has also somehow retrieved photographs associated with St. Therese and her family that were not, it seems, available to the general public, including a previously unpublished photograph of the saint's mother. Here, the saint and her family emerge as people with practical problems, wrestling with poor financial investments, billeted soldiers, the death of loved ones and perplexing life choices. In this book, the struggles, character flaws and uncertainties are not airbrushed out. But neither does Dr. Nevin set out to find villains to slay among the Martins or the nuns with whom Therese shared her convent life. In the end, this book is about the love-centred, Jesus-focused path that Therese chartered at the end of her life. Eschewing excessive preoccupation with dogma and self, she dispensed with a mercantile approach to religion (if you're good to God, God will be good to you) and plunged head on into the abyss of love. Dr. Nevin discusses, with awesome command of the biographical facs and the primary sources, the still unfolding implications of Therese's writings. She died at 24, but not a moment of her life was wasted.
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4.0 out of 5 starsDeconstructing the Little Flower
By Barbara A. Lee on January 24, 2009
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This book attempts to deconstruct Therese Martin (1873-1897), better known as St. Therese of Lisieux. It is not, as the author states at the outset, a biography; rather, it is an interesting window on what "biography" means in the 21st century.

Therese entered a Carmelite convent at the age of fifteen and died of tuberculosis at the age of 24. She had very little education, even by the standards of the time, and except for a pilgrimage to Rome at age 14 had almost no contact with the world outside her small provincial town. Yet she was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1925 and declared a "Doctor of the Church" in 1997-a distinction traditionally reserved for those who make major contributions to the teachings of the Church, and accorded to only two other women in history. For more than a century, she has been one of the most popular saints of the Roman canon, and the subject of a vast literature, both popular and scholarly. Much of the biographical material is based, directly or indirectly, on the manuscript she wrote in the last year of her life at the direction of her religious superior, later published as "Story of a Soul." Her theory and practice of the spiritual life are there set out in very simple language, but have been interpreted as a profound exposition of Christian mysticism.

Nevin devotes only a chapter to these well-known facts. The main thrust of his book is the creation of a context for Therese's life. He begins with a formidable chapter on the development of religious thinking in the century following the French Revolution.Read more ›
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