Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.
These spiritual reflections guide their readers toward God’s embrace. In Embracing God, Marsha L. Dutton surveys the interwoven structures and themes of five treatises, showing how Aelred guides his readers to cling forever to God through memory, which is one of the three faculties of God’s image placed in humankind at creation (alongside reason and will). Individual chapters explore meditations on Jesus’ life, spiritual friendship, the eucharistic nature of Cistercian spirituality, and the nature of the soul.
Marsha L. Dutton is the executive editor of Cistercian Publications. A former professor of medieval English literature at Ohio University, she is the editor of A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167) (Brill, 2017), of four volumes of Aelred’s works in translation, and of “Aelred of Rievaulx” and (with Tyler Sergent) “The Cistercians” in the Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. Her sixteen presentations on Aelred for Schola Cisterciensis appear on YouTube.
ContentsForeword ixDaniel J. Heisey, OSBPreface xiAbbreviations xviiIntroduction xxiJ. Stephen RussellChapter 1 Clinging to God: The Pedagogy of Memory in Aelred’s Spiritual Treatises 5Chapter 2 Christ Our Mother: Aelred’s Iconography for Contemplative Union 45Chapter 3 Friendship and the Love of God: Augustine’s Teaching in the Confessions and Aelred of Rievaulx’s Response in Spiritual Friendship 75Chapter 4 A Model for Friendship: Ambrose’s Contribution to Aelred of Rievaulx’s Spiritual Friendship 121 Chapter 5 Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: The Eucharistic Spirituality of the Cistercian Fathers 157Chapter 6 Intimacy and Imitation: The Humanity of Christ in Cistercian Spirituality 193Chapter 7 The Cistercian Source: Aelred, Bonaventure, and Ignatius 237Appendix Aelred’s Works 269Works Cited 279Index of Names 297General Index 303
"Marsha Dutton's close readings of Aelred's works bring a deeper understanding of a major unifying thread in Aelred's thought—the relationship between human beings and God. This collection of essays underscores the manner in which that relationship informs in unanticipated ways a diverse array of Aelred's texts. From iconographic imagery to theological philosophy, to ideological origins and contexts, the reader will find no shortage of illuminating insights in Dutton's work. Aelred scholars will not be disappointed."Christopher Coski, professor of French, Ohio University