RT Article
T1 Defining Human Life Backwards: The Theology of Life in Death in Gertrude of Helfta's Spiritual Exercises
JF Cistercian studies quarterly
VO 58
IS 1
SP 75
OP 87
A1 Johnson, Ella L.
LA English
PB Cistercian Studies Quarterly
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1845237315
AB The article explore the liturgically-based meditative genre of Gertrude of Helfta's spiritual exercises. It considers the intended effect of the exercises, which focus on life-giving death, and the impact of the text on the reader's encounter with eternal life before death. It also discusses the context, compositional structure, and rhetorical ductus of the spiritual exercises, which has been structured according to the stages of life, with the bookends of rebirth and life in death.
K1 Afterlife
K1 Death
K1 GERTRUDE, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302
K1 Reincarnation
K1 Spiritual Exercises