Journey into Love:
From Fear to Freedom
by Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P.
Piers Plowman, a fourteenth-century English poem, is recognized as a masterpiece of literature, but is almost unknown as a spiritual treasure and guide. "A Journey into Love" is a book of passages from this poem with brief commentary and questions for private meditation or group discussion and with beautiful photographic illustrations from the poet's England. Piers is a non-sexist, experiential poem exploring through colorful metaphor the great religious mysteries. Its sense of the relationship of nature with God is an early sort of ecological spirituality. Its stress on social justice, on the importance of marriage, and on the ethics of love are peculiarly attractive to twenty-first century persons. The author, a medieval master of the spiritual life, leads readers in a journey into love."