Embracing God : Essays on the Spiritual Treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx (Cistercian Studies Series)

Dutton, Marsha L./ Heisey, OSB, Daniel (FRW)/ Russell, J. Stephen (INT)

Liturgical Press（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 360 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780879071950
• DDC分類 230.2

Full Description

These spiritual reflections guide their readers toward God's embrace.
 
In Embracing God, Marsha L. Dutton surveys the interwoven structures and themes of five treatises, showing how Aelred guides his readers to cling forever to God through memory, which is one of the three faculties of God's image placed in humankind at creation (alongside reason and will). Individual chapters explore meditations on Jesus' life, spiritual friendship, the eucharistic nature of Cistercian spirituality, and the nature of the soul.

Contents

Contents
Foreword   ix
     Daniel J. Heisey, OSB
Preface   xi
Abbreviations   xvii
Introduction   xxi
     J. Stephen Russell
Chapter 1    Clinging to God: The Pedagogy of Memory in Aelred's Spiritual Treatises   5
Chapter 2    Christ Our Mother: Aelred's Iconography for Contemplative Union   45
Chapter 3    Friendship and the Love of God: Augustine's Teaching in the Confessions and Aelred of Rievaulx's Response in Spiritual Friendship   75
Chapter 4    A Model for Friendship: Ambrose's Contribution to Aelred of Rievaulx's Spiritual Friendship   121 
Chapter 5    Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: The Eucharistic Spirituality of the Cistercian Fathers   157
Chapter 6    Intimacy and Imitation: The Humanity of Christ in Cistercian Spirituality   193
Chapter 7    The Cistercian Source: Aelred, Bonaventure, and Ignatius   237
Appendix   Aelred's Works   269
   Works Cited   279
   Index of Names   297
   General Index   303