Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Wonderful synthesis of Ss. John and Teresa

I had the pleasure of taking a class taught by Fr. Dubay, with this being the main textbook. He does an amazing job of correlating the messages of Ss. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila to those of the Gospel regarding prayer.The reason I gave only 4 stars is that this book, for me, is an outline and a synthesis guide. I would recommend to anybody on the spiritual journey reading Teresa of Avila and Therese of Liseux, and for the more knowledgable ones, Catherine of Sienna and John of the Cross. Although it contains much of the same information as in the primary sources, there is uncomparable value in reading them straight from text of the saints.One other thing, Fr. Dubay tends to use many examples. It can get repetitive at times if you already understand the concept.