ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents Teresa de Jesus's responds in a very different way to questions like John Davies' and to those of speculative philosophers, thereby revealing her approach to truth as well as her idea of what it is. It suggested that we can trace the effect of reformist theologies on the ways that the Carmelite nuns at Antwerp and Lierre present their sensory narratives. We can identify important points of contact between the women and well-known proponents of philosophical debate. The nuns' writing makes it clear that they were interested in the same sorts of religious questions as Rene Descartes and that they approached these to obtain mainly spiritual answers. The book traces a wider national politics at play in the nuns' writing, a politics that had deeply personal ramifications affecting the ways in which they presented their own sensory spirituality.
