Contemplación y trascendencia: teresa de Ávila y el fundamento teológico-místico para la superación de la debilidad femenina

Abstract

This paper aims to show how Teresa of Avila ends up reaffirming the potential of women’s words and deeds even when incorporating negative aspects of intellectual Christian theological construct on women because of her appropriation of mystical theology. In effect, this field provided her with the theoretical assumptions that allowed her to conceive the materiality of the weak female body as a subordinate element to the soul without gender’s ability to access the depths of divine knowledge.