Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Aelred, Marsha L. Dutton, Lawrence C. BracelandSeries:Cistercian StudiesPublish date:2010-04-01Pages:160
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cistercian PublicationsISBN-13:9780879079703ISBN-10:879079703UPC:9780879079703Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christian Living, MonasticismBook Topic:Spiritual Growth, InspirationalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.42Product ID:SCP27Y75YE
Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147-1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it "a mother of mercy" to those in need. In a three-book Ciceronian dialogue Aelred defines human friendship as sacramental, beginning in creation, as God sought to place his own love of society in all his creatures, linking friends to Christ in this life and culminating in friendship with God in beatitude. This fresh new translation makes the work crisply readable, allowing the intellectual and Christian insight of this great Cistercian teacher and writer to speak clearly to today's seekers of love, wisdom, and truth.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cistercian PublicationsISBN-13:9780879079703ISBN-10:879079703UPC:9780879079703Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christian Living, MonasticismBook Topic:Spiritual Growth, InspirationalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.42Product ID:SCP27Y75YE
Dutton, Marsha L.: - Marsha L. Dutton, professor of medieval literature and director of graduate studies in English at Ohio University, is a longtime student of the works of Aelred of Rievaulx and of other twelfth-century Cistercian writers. She is associate editor of Cistercian Studies Quarterly. In addition to her many articles on Cistercian thought, Dutton has written the introduction to Vita Aelredi (CF 57) and edited Aelred's The Historical Works and Lives of the Northern Saints (CF 56, 71) as well as preparing a critical edition of Aelred's Pastoral Prayer (CF 73). She was one of the editors of Truth as Gift: Studies in Cistercian History Honoring John R. Sommerfeldt (CS 204).
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