![]() ![]() At the moment when this prayer is given, the soul is captive, she remarks, and I am not free to love anything but God. Teresa’s explanation of the 4th Mansion is the occupation of the will with God. The motivates are driven by love rather than by obligation, personal gain, blessing others, or even doing the right thing The beloved has heard the call of the Lover and a hunger and thirst are created, that were hardly known to the Christian formally.” He quotes another author, Dubay, who says of the 4th Mansion: “Key to St. He writes: “As the believer enters the 4th Mansion, there develops a divinely bestowed absorption in knowing, loving, and seeking God. Most evangelicals, he argues (rightly in my opinion), do not get beyond the 3rd mansion to the 4th and beyond. There are seven mansions. I reread the Interior Castle as a result and found his work immensely helpful in my own prayer journey as well as our work in helping others to pray. He later gave me a copy of his doctoral dissertation on Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle and I was deeply impacted. This past summer I got to know Tom Ashbrook, one of the founders of an evangelical monastic order called Imago Christi, a ministry of spiritual formation within Church Resource Ministries. ![]()
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