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Gertrud the Great of Helfta - Herald of God's Loving-Kindness: Book 4, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Herald of God's Loving-Kindness: Book 4

Av Gertrud the Great of Helfta

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Gertrud the Great (1256–1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate. At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversion that led to a series of visionary experiences. These centered on “the divine loving-kindness,” which she perceived as expressed through and symbolized by Christ’s divine Heart. Some of these experiences she recorded in Latin “with her own hand,” in what became Book 2 of The Herald of God’s Loving-Kindness. Books 1, 3, 4, and 5 were written down by another nun, a close confidant of the saint, now often known as “Sister N.” Book 4 records Gertrud’s many vivid spiritual experiences, which took place on various liturgical feasts when she was too sick to take part in the community’s worship. Foregrounding visions of the court of heaven and dialogues with Christ, the Virgin Mary, and other saints, they further develop devotional themes already present in the earlier books. Often profoundly indebted to the liturgy of Mass and office, they have been carefully arranged according to the ecclesiastical year by the medieval compiler.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-03-26
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 417 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Cistercian Fathers Series
  • Antal sidor: 338
  • Förlag: Liturgical Press
  • ISBN: 9780879072858
  • Översättare: Alexandra Barratt
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Alexandra Barratt is professor emeritus at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. She studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto and has published extensively on religious writing by medieval women in Latin and English. She has previously translated Books One and Two (CF035) and Book Three (CF063) of The Herald for the Cistercian Fathers series.

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"Having now translated the first four books of Herald of God's Loving Kindness, Alexandra Barratt has made an invaluable contribution to studies on Gertrud the Great and the women religious at Helfta. Barratt's introduction and notes helpfully elucidate the role of liturgy and music especially central in this book of the Herald. Her translation achieves the delicate balance between being faithful to the singular charisma of Gertrud of Helfta and being accessible to the contemporary reader."Ella Johnson, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry

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