Educational Aspects in the Spiritual Autobiography of Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Abstract

Despite of its importance and of the multiple possible outcomes, spiritual autobiography has not been enough valorised until now by the theological, philological, philosophical or historical research. Conscious on this fact, we will try there to bring into attention an important work of the genre, namely the spiritual autobiography of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-2003), founder of the famous Congregation of Catholic sisters, "Missionaries of Charity." Moreover, we will investigate there a relevant aspect not only for the style and content of her work, but also for the contemporary society, namely the education and its role. We will try to emphasize there the multiple forms of education that can be found and to see what is the relationship between education, revelation and act according to the Catholic religious. We will also try to see the similitudes and differences between the investigated text and other coming from the same or from different confessional backgrounds and to create, where it will be possible, bridges between spiritualties.

Keywords

• "Missionaries of Charity
• " love for poor
• India
• Catholic spirituality
• vision