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Human Christ for St. Teresa," p. 134.
lxx. Ibid., 138.
lxxi. Ibid., 135.
lxxii. Welch, Spiritual Pilgrims, p. 196.
lxxiii. For an excellent treatment of the butterfly symbol in
Teresa as image of healing and transformation into Christ, see
Welch, Ibid., 136-164.
lxxiv. Interior Castle, 7.2.5, p. 179.
lxxv. Welch, Spiritual Pilgrims, pp. 141-42, 145.
lxxvi. Interior Castle, 7.4.6, 10. See Rowan Williams, Teresa of
Avila, Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1991, pp.138-139.
lxxvii. For this summary statement, see Luti, Teresa of Avila's
Way pp. 96-103 and Carroll, "The Saving Role of the Human Christ
for St. Teresa," pp. 133 -151.
lxxviii. Life, 22.10; 37.5.
lxxix. In my treatment of the role of Christ in John of the
Cross, I am guided mainly by two doctoral dissertations. James
Denis Edwards, The Dynamism In Faith: The Interaction Between
Experience of God and Explicit Faith: A Comparative Study of the
Mystical Theology of John of the Cross and the Transcendental
Theology of Karl Rahner. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University
Microfilms International, 1979. Keith Reeves Barron, A Study of
St. John of the Cross's Theology of Transformation from the
Perspective of Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory. Ann
Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1989.
lxxx. Edwards, The Dynamism in Faith, p. 92; Barron, A Study of
St. John of the Cross's Theology of Transformation, p. 151.
lxxxi. Karl Rahner, "The Eternal Significance of the Humanity of
Jesus for Our Relationship with God, " in Theological Investigations,
vol. 3, trans. Karl H. Kruger and Boniface Kruger (London:
Darton, Longman and Todd, 1967), p. 42. Regarding the eternal
significance of the humanity of Jesus, Rahner himself states:
"For, according to the testimony of faith, this created human
nature is the indispensable and permanent gateway through which
everything created must pass if it is to find the perfection of
its eternal validity before God. He is the gate and the door,
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