Into the Dark Night and Back: The Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin. Moshe Sluhovsky, ed. Patricia M. Ranum, trans. Jesuit Studies: Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History 19. Leiden: Brill, 2019. viii + 548 pp. €175

• Published in: Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 672 - 673
• Main Author: Krause, Virginia
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.07.2021
• Subjects: Exorcism; Interiority; Modernity; Mysticism; Otherness; Spirituality

Infused with Carmelite spirituality from a young age, Jean-Joseph Surin devoted his life to perfecting techniques of mystical spirituality based on the abnegation of the self and the cultivation of interiority (where God's presence was believed to reside), penance, prayer, and humility. Into th...