The Nature and Dignity of Love: Volume 30 (Cistercian Fathers Series) - Softcover

William Of Saint-Thierry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879079304 ISBN 13: 9780879079307

Verlag: Liturgical Press, 1981

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Reseña del editor:

William of Saint Thierry wrote down his reflections on the nature and greatness of love during the second decade of the twelfth century, while he was abbot of the benedictine monastery of St Thierry, near Rheims. His insight, drawn from Scripture and the Church Fathers, shaped his own spiritual journey and his earthly pilgrimage from the schools to the abbey and finally to cistercial life at Signy in the Ardennes. Love, he writes, is a force which draws human beings towards the God who is love. In love we were created 'to the image and likeness of God'...

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David N. Bell is professor emeritus of religious studies at Memorial University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He retired as head of the department of religious studies at the end of 2011. He has published some two dozen books, more than a hundred articles, and a great number of book reviews. His most recent book, published in 2017, is A Saint in the Sun: Praising Saint Bernard in the France of Louis XIV (Cistercian Publications).

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• Verlag: Liturgical Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0879079304
• ISBN 13: 9780879079307
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 127