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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Autor principal: Johnson, Ella L. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 2023
En: Cistercian studies quarterly
Año: 2023, Volumen: 58, Número: 1, Páginas: 75-87
Clasificaciones IxTheo:CB Existencia cristiana
KAE Edad Media Central
KCA Órdenes y congregaciones
NBE Antropología
NBQ Escatología
Otras palabras clave:B Spiritual Exercises
B GERTRUDE, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302
B Afterlife
B Reincarnation
B Death
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Sumario: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
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Cistercian studies quarterly