The secrets of 12 spiritual masters: authors trace themes of Christian mystical tradition

National Catholic Reporter, Oct 8, 2004 by Helen Rolfson

This is a book for the serious Christian, whether lay or religious, Catholic or Protestant, to take along for daily reading and reflection, as a book to come back to or to use as a jumping-off point for deepened understanding of any one of the 12 featured masters. It seems especially suitable for retreat times. One may well be inspired by these authors to put the Bible in the other pocket, to take and read with new attentiveness inspired by this collection of great teachers who have taught something so precious that the church never wanted to forget it.

[Franciscan Sp. Helen Rolfson is associate professor of theology at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn.]