San Antonio College Library

A Story of the rise and progress of that Protestant Movement known as Disciples of Christ or Christian Churches, as it developed in Texas; including, through the Nineteenth Century decades, a story of the kindred Movement, the "Churches of Christ."

"Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is one of the most extraordinary and influential mystical figures in the history of Judaism, a visionary teacher who helped shape the course of nearly all subsequent Jewish mysticism. Though he lived only briefly in the Galilean city of Safed, his name became synonymous with the great renaissance of mystical community that took place there in the sixteenth century. Luria's powerful religious imagination and personal charisma...