The Life Of Aelred Of Rievaulx

Author : Pierre-André Burton
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879077082

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Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) by Pierre-André Burton Pdf

2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in English translation edition This book places the life of Aelred of Rievaulx, third abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, within the hundred-year period from the Norman Conquest of England in October 1066 through Aelred's death in January 1167. While exploring what is known of Aelred's life from his own works and especially from the principal work of Walter Daniel, author of The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, Burton considers the influence of both English and church history on Aelred's personality and purpose as Christian, abbot, and writer. He emphasizes the place of the crucified Christ at the center of Aelred's life while calling spiritual friendship—not only personal but cosmological—the "hermeneutic key" to his teaching.

Author : Walter Daniel
Publisher : Cistercian Fathers
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015032710058

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The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx by Walter Daniel Pdf

Writing shortly after Aelred of Rievaulx died in 1167, Walter Daniel, his secretary and fellow monk, has created the picture of Aelred which endures to this day. We come to know a man of 'charity and astonishing sanctity', an ailing abbot whose monks sat chatting around his bed. Only in passing do we glimpse the ambitious young steward at the court of King David of Scotland, the ecclesiastical diplomat and political counselor who moved easily in royal and episcopal circles, or the canny property manager who guided his monasteries to prosperity. From Walter's pen we have a gentle, loving, ascetic abbot who offered spiritual guidance to his monks through conversation and to a wider audience through the treatises he composed, and who died a holy death. [Back cover].

Author : Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041490389

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Spiritual Friendship by Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) Pdf

Follows and completes Aelred's earlier treatise on love, "The Mirror of Charity". In it he reflects on the theories of friendship propunded by the great stoic philosophic Cicero. A humanist and a Christian monk, Aelred advocated friendship on both the natural and the supernatural plane. Frankness and not flattery, generosity and not gain, patience in correction and constancy in affection he saw as the marks of a genuine friendship.

Author : Brian Patrick McGuire
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064834743

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Brother and Lover by Brian Patrick McGuire Pdf

Each age finds saints suited to its needs. In our own time Aelred of Rievaulx has received a great deal of scholarly, if not quite popular, attention. He has been called the "patron saint of friendship" and the "gay abbot of Rievaulx", though he was never canonized a saint of the universal church and his sexual identity will always remain a matter of controversy. Aelred lived, as the Chinese proverb holds, in interesting times. Born into an Anglo-Saxon family just forty-four years after the Norman Conquest, he was the son and grandson of priests at a time when it was becoming difficult to combine priesthood and marriage. The events of his life and the circumstances of his times make colorful reading, almost as colorful as Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe or Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Yet without ever passing up the chance to tell a good story, Brother and Lover devotes most of its attention to Aelred's personal impact and message, especially through his remarkable work, Spiritual Friendship. Aelred's belief in the power and possibilities of human love distinguish him from almost all his medieval predecessors. His emphasis on the importance of friendship in monastic life places him outside the mainstream of that tradition. In a period of anarchy, not too unlike our own, Aelred believed in love and lived out his love. As a brother and lover, he reaches out to us. Across the centuries he is not very far away.

Author : Marsha Dutton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004337978

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A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167) by Marsha Dutton Pdf

The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey, his sermons, spirituality, and histories and highlight their principal themes (e.g., friendship, community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives).

Author : Pierre-André Burton, OCSO
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879072766

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Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) by Pierre-André Burton, OCSO Pdf

This book places the life of Aelred of Rievaulx, third abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, within the hundred-year period from the Norman Conquest of England in October 1066 through Aelred's death in January 1167. While exploring what is known of Aelred's life from his own works and especially from the principal work of Walter Daniel, author of The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, Burton considers the influence of both English and church history on Aelred's personality and purpose as Christian, abbot, and writer. He emphasizes the place of the crucified Christ at the center of Aelred's life while calling spiritual friendship-not only personal but cosmological-the "hermeneutic key" to his teaching.

Author : Sharla Race
Publisher : Sharla Race
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9781907119026

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Aelred of Rievaulx by Sharla Race Pdf

The life story of Aelred of Rievaulx - the son of a married priest who went onto to become the most influential Cistercian in medieval, 12th century, England. Historical biography, medieval history, 12th century England, Cistercians.

Author : Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114582351

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Aelred of Rievaulx by Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) Pdf

Author : Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx)
Publisher : Cistercian Fathers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015069228396

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Aelred of Rievaulx by Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) Pdf

Aelred of Rievaulx, the saintly abbot, tells here of saintly forebears and wondrous events in the North of England. An exile and son of exiles, Aelred was well aware of the conflicts and contradictions of human life in exile from the true homeland. He became the great cistercian teacher of the Incarnation, the spiritual guide of fallen humans to the God who had become a man. He wrote of and for flawed and foolish men and women on their journey to the heavenly Jerusalem; his pilgrims are cloistered and uncloistered, men and women: kings and queens, monks and nuns, saints on horseback and workers in purple and lepers and robbers and priests. Through his eyes, we see the saint who evangelized Scotland (The Life of Ninian, written probably 1155-1160), and the saints of the church of Aelred's family home (The Book of the Saints of the Church of Hexham and Their Miracles, ?1154-1155), and we learn of A Certain Wonderful Miracle (1158-1165). Book jacket.

Author : Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028552037

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The Life of Saint Edward, King and Confessor by Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) Pdf

When Henry II came to the throne of England, he was hailed as the one who brought to an end the divisions caused by the Norman conquest, for both the Saxon and Norman royal lines met in him. To promote this newfound unity, the cult of King Edward the Confessor was promoted, culminating in his canonization in 1161. Shortly afterwards, on October 13, 1163, the new saint's body was solemnly enshrined in Westminster Abbey. On this occasion the honor of preparing the sermon was given to Aelred, the revered Abbot of Rievaulx. On the same occasion, Aelred undertook to write the life of St. Edward, and this is the text now first presented in English.

Author : Daniel Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:421758092

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The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx by Daniel Walter Pdf

Author : Jean Truax
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879072513

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Aelred the Peacemaker by Jean Truax Pdf

In addition to being a prolific spiritual writer and the abbot of the premier Cistercian monastery in northern England, Aelred of Rievaulx somehow found the time and the stamina to travel extensively throughout the Anglo-Norman realm, acting as a mediator, a problem solver, and an adviser to kings. His career spanned the troubled years of the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda and reached its zenith during the early years of the reign of Henry II. In this work, Jean Truax focuses on the public career of Aelred of Rievaulx, placing him in his historical context, deepening the reader's understanding of his work, and casting additional light on his underappreciated role as politician, mediator, and negotiator outside his abbey's walls.

Author : Edward Cletus Sellner
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781590213148

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The Double by Edward Cletus Sellner Pdf

Drawing upon theology, Jungian psychology, literature, and the history of Christian spirituality, this book shows how same-sex desire can be reflected in those close intimacy between gay men.

Author : John R. Sommerfeldt
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809143232

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Aelred of Rievaulx on Love and Order in the World and the Church by John R. Sommerfeldt Pdf

"The universe is a product of God's infinite love, according to the expansive thinking of Aelred of Rievaulx, a Cistercian abbot of the Middle Ages. Aelred sees human existence, order, and action as reflections of God's love. But Aelred knows that, although they have been created for happiness, humans are neither perfect nor happy. At the same time, however, he is sure that the flood of God's love can overwhelm people who do not reject this divine gift. Because Aelred knows that humans exist only in relationship, he searches out the social order necessary for happiness. So he explores the nature of the church as a community and the support that each social group or calling gives to the whole of existence." "This study examines how Aelred sees God informing the cosmos, and the humans who inhabit it, according to the divine order and principle of love. It follows Aelred's analysis of the disordering sources of human unhappiness, which happens when humans reject God's love, and then investigates Aelred's understanding of God's re-ordering of the human condition through the gifts and graces flowing from his greatest gift: his son, Jesus."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227179062

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Dictionary of Theologians by Jonathan Hill Pdf

An exhaustive guide to every significant Christian theologian who lived from the first century to 1308, the year in which John Duns Scotus died. The dictionary encompasses the Catholic, Orthodox, Nestorian and Monophysite traditions, including information not previously available in English. Thoroughly indexed, the dictionary incorporates common variants of names and concepts which will help and direct the reader. The main criterion for inclusion has been contribution to the development of Christian theology. Sub-criteria by which that is measured include, above all, originality and influence on later figures. With over 290 entries, the dictionary provides a handy summary of theologiansi lives and writings together with recent scholarship,as well as an up-to-date, definitive bibliography listing primary texts, translations and secondary literature in the major western European languages. Useful for all levels of academia; no other text matches the depth of the dictionaryis bibliographies. The unprecedented thoroughness of Hill's compilation provides an essential resource for studies at all levels on such a large and varied range of Church thinkers.