La grâce et l’humain dans l’union à Dieu. Interrogations scientifiques et théologiques sur le témoignage de sainte Thérèse d’Avila

Abstract

Teresa of Avila associates spiritual marriage with extraordinary mystical phenomena: an intellectual vision of the Trinity, an intellectual and an imaginary vision of Christ. Comparing her testimony with that of Marie of the Incarnation and taking neurosciences and psychoanalysis into account leads us to update her principle of discrimination of the origin of such phenomena, and to propose a pastoral of transforming union that strongly relativizes them.