Defining Human Life Backwards: The Theology of Life in Death in Gertrude of Helfta's Spiritual Exercises
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 discuss...
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Cistercian Studies Quarterly
2023
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Cistercian studies quarterly
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 58, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 75-87 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | CB Χριστιανική ύπαρξη, Πνευματικότητα ΚΑΕ Εκκλησιαστική Ιστορία 900-1300, Ώριμος Μεσαίωνας KCA Θρησκευτικά Τάγματα, Μοναχισμός NBE Ανθρωπολογία NBQ Αισχατολογία |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Spiritual Exercises
B GERTRUDE, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302 B Afterlife B Reincarnation B Death |
| Σύνοψη: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1062-6549 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Cistercian studies quarterly
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