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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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Cistercian Studies Quarterly
2023
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Cistercian studies quarterly
Ano: 2023, Volume: 58, Número: 1, Páginas: 75-87 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | CB Existência cristã KAE Idade Média Central KCA Ordens e congregações NBE Antropologia NBQ Escatologia |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Spiritual Exercises
B GERTRUDE, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302 B Afterlife B Reincarnation B Death |
| Resumo: | 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 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Cistercian studies quarterly
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