# Mental prayer as friendship

- Id: `mental_prayer_as_friendship`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/mental-prayer-as-friendship/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `8acbd7355f136a935fceacdead5cdbbc0d2b0c8037e92e292fde85d829c6767f`

## Summary

For Teresa, mental prayer is a sustained friendship with God. This describes her doctrine without turning reported experience into verified supernatural fact.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 40 passages across 1 works, including The Life. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:teresa_of_avila.life:9",
    "passage:teresa_of_avila.life:8",
    "passage:teresa_of_avila.life:7"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 40,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "teresa_of_avila.life",
        "title": "The Life",
        "author": "Teresa of Ávila",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/teresa-of-avila/life/"
    }
]
```