Ursula King

Emerging Heart

World Religions

“Emerging Heart is an immensely moving account of Lanzetta's own spiritual experience combined with probing reflections on the mystical heart of world faiths, the significance of interreligious dialogue, and the reality of a newly emerging global spirituality. An inspiring vision inviting to daring ventures.”

Jacques Dupuis Faces the Inquisition

Theology

“This is a book full of witness, wisdom, and challenging theological thought. It convincingly argues for deeper comparative theology, further engagement with religious pluralism, and interfaith dialogue at the deepest existential and spiritual level. A truly inspiring read.”

Radical Wisdom

Theology

“Radical Wisdom presents challenging perspectives on feminism and mysticism that are refreshingly new and daring. While many feminist theologians have written on women's struggle with a male God and patriarchal religious language, Beverly Lanzetta's meditative study explores with deep sensitivity and and urgent social concern the innermost spiritual oppression of women's souls and bodies. Drawing on her intimate knowledge of classical mystical texts, especially Julian of Norwich and Teresa of Avila, but also John of the Cross, and using the insights of her own experience of many years' teaching and spiritual direction, Lanzetta attempts to draw a new map of an active mystical spirituality which can energise women's struggles for spiritual equality and agency. Some of Lanzetta's readings of Teresa are startlingly new and empowering, and so is her bold conception of a world ethic of spiritual rights. Her vision of the organic wholeness and spiritual unity of humanity can strengthen a profoundly ecological spirituality, and her feminist mystical theology grounded in radical wisdom provides a much needed spiritual dynamic to the ongoing social struggles for peace, equality, and justice in the contemporary world.”