Thoughts and Reflections of Armand-Jean de Rancé, Abbot of la Trappe (Cistercian Studies Series)

de Rancé, Armand-Jean/ Marsollier, Jacques/ Bell, David N. (TRN)

Liturgical Press（2022/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780879071349
• DDC分類 271.125

Full Description

Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626-1700), the reforming abbot of la Trappe, was a prolific writer in a verbose age. Until he was in his thirties, he enjoyed the life of a young man about town, but then, after experiencing a dramatic conversion, he left the world forever for the silence and austerity of la Trappe. To read all that he wrote when he governed the abbey would take a great deal of time, but in 1703, three years after Rancé's death, Jacques Marsollier, archdeacon of Uzèz and one of Rancé's biographers, published a slender volume of selected Pensées et Reflexions, "Thoughts and Reflections," by Rancé, which presents the essential ideas of the abbot in a condensed form. There are 259 Pensées, ranging in length from a couple of lines to about thirty. They are best dipped into, not read consecutively, for some will have more impact than others depending on the reader, the time, and the place.

Contents

Contents

Abbreviations vii
Preface ix

Part One
Introduction
   Chapter One
Armand-Jean de Rancé, Abbot of la Trappe 3
   Chapter Two
Jacques Marsollier and the Publication of the Pensées 15
   Chapter Three
Spirituality without Mysticism 26
   Chapter Four
Rancé's Spirituality 37
   Chapter Five
Rancé's Monasticism 50
   Chapter Six
The Spirituality of the Pensées 65 

Part Two
The Translation
Abbreviations 81
The Three Editions and the Translation 83
Thoughts and Reflections on Various Subjects of Piety 85

Selected Bibliography 165
Index to the Pensées 168
Index to Part One 183