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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主要作者: Johnson, Ella L. (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 2023
In: Cistercian studies quarterly
Year: 2023, 卷: 58, 發布: 1, Pages: 75-87
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
NBE Anthropology
NBQ Eschatology
Further subjects:B Spiritual Exercises
B GERTRUDE, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302
B Afterlife
B Reincarnation
B Death
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總結: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.
ISSN:1062-6549
Contains:Enthalten in: Cistercian studies quarterly