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A 5 page research paper that compares and contrasts the writing of Teresa of Avila with that of John Calvin in regards to the topic of knowledge of God and the soul. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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topic in very different manners. Basically, Calvin and Teresa arrive at the same position but from diametrically opposed starting positions. Calvin takes a negative route that castigates the Christian and
emphasizes the unworthiness of the supplicant to receive Gods grace. Yet, examination of their writing reveals that Calvin and Teresa professed very similar ideas. Teresa pictures the "Interior
Castle" as containing seven mansions, the "seven dwellings of the soul...in the journey of the soul toward its end" which is the Holy Trinity (Richard, 2002). The first rooms are
those most distant from the center, the "King" who dwells at the center of her analogy (The Our Father and the Interior Castle of St. Teresa). These first rooms contain
certain common temptations and certain graces. By describing the rooms in terms of temptations and rewards, Teresa charts the journey of the soul toward the inner most rooms, wherein knowledge
of God becomes possible. In The Interior Castle, Teresa writes that the door of entry into this castle is "prayer and meditation" (Interior Castle-Saint Teresa of Avila). Calvin, like
Teresa, felt that each individual possesses within their own soul, an innate knowledge of Gods divinity (Sudduth 53). Calvin wrote that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by
natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine majesty" (43). In other words, Calvin agreed with Teresa that
God provides an inner "template" for discerning the path to righteousness, which the individual can locate simply by acknowledging the existence of this fact and looking within, it was possible
to glimpse the power of "divine majesty" (43). However, Calvin does not stress that the individual should engage on an inner quest for knowledge of God in the same way
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