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books will be a welcome addition to bookshelf of every literate religious person. The Christian Century John Ruusbroec: The Spiritual Espousals, The Sparkling Stones, and Other Works translated and introduced by James A. Wiseman, O.S.B. preface by Louis Dupre God's interior stirring and touch make us hunger and strive, for Spirit of God is pursuing our spirit. The more there is of touch, more there is of hunger and striving. This is a life of love at highest level of its activity. John Ruusbroec (1293-1381) The fourteenth century Europe has been called the age of adversity. It was a time when medieval society was racked by Hundred Years' War, Black Death, and peasant turmoil of age, saw decline of its mendicant orders, Babylonian Captivity of papacy Avignon, and rise of wide-ranging heretical movements such as Free Spirit heresy that disparaged Church and its sacraments favor of an immediate experience of God. In this context John Ruusbroec (1293-1381) lived as a monk duchy of Brabant and produced a corpus of works on spiritual life that has made him most important Flemish mystic an age of such greats as John Tauler, Julian of Norwich, and Birgitta of Sweden. For first time English, four of Ruusbroec's most influential writings have been collected one volume: The Spiritual Espousals, A Mirror of Eternal Blessedness, The Little Book of Clarification, and The Sparkling Stone. This new translation by James Wiseman offers a fresh, contemporary rendering of Ruusbroec's brilliant discourses that caused Abbot Cuthbert Butler to comment that in all probability...there has been no greater contemplative; and certainly there has been no greater mystical writer.
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