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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cistercian Studies Quarterly
2023
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Cistercian studies quarterly
Année: 2023, Volume: 58, Numéro: 1, Pages: 75-87 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | CB Spiritualité chrétienne KAE Moyen Âge central KCA Monachisme; ordres religieux NBE Anthropologie NBQ Eschatologie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Spiritual Exercises
B GERTRUDE, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302 B Afterlife B Reincarnation B Death |
| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Cistercian studies quarterly
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