Mother Teresa: Saint of the Peripheries

by Ines Angeli Murzaku

Overview

A biography of Mother Teresa that pays close attention to how her childhood in Albania affected her spiritual and pastoral development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587687501
Publisher:	Paulist Press
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	542 KB

About the Author

Dr. Ines Angeli Murzaku is professor of church history and director of Catholic Studies Program at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Prologue The Theology of Periphery 1

Part I Personal Peripheries

Chapter 1 Gonxhe Bojaxhiu: A Child of the Periphery 17

Chapter 2 Impelled toward Mission: The School of the Periphery 42

Chapter 3 India 60

Chapter 4 Spiritual Darkness 96

Part II Mystical Peripheries

Chapter 5 Make Me a Channel of Your Peace: St. Francis of Assisi and St. Mother Teresa 129

Chapter 6 Two Mystics in Action: St. Padre Pio and St. Mother Teresa 170

Chapter 7 There to Lead: The Fruitful Collaboration of St. John Paul II and St. Mother Teresa 212

Part III Contemporary Peripheries

Chapter 8 The Pope of the Periphery and the Mother of the Periphery: Pope Francis and St. Mother Teresa 257

Notes 291