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Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) : an existential and spiritual biography
Uniform Title
Aelred de Rievaulx, 1110-1167. English
Title
Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) : an existential and spiritual biography / Pierre-André Burton, OCSO ; translated by Christopher Coski.
ISBN
9780879072766
0879072768
9780879077082
9780879077082
9780879077082
Publication
Athens, Ohio : Cistercian Publications ; Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2020]
Physical Description
xiii, 598 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes
"This book is translated from Pierre-André Burton, OCSO, Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167): Essai de Biographie Existentielle et Spirituelle (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2010), with permission from Les Éditions du Cerf."
Translated from the French.
Summary
This book places the life of Aelred of Rievaulx, third abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, within the hundred-year period from the Norman Conquest of England in October 1066 through Aelred's death in January 1167. While exploring what is known of Aelred's life from his own works and especially from the principal work of Walter Daniel, author of The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, Burton considers the influence of both English and church history on Aelred's personality and purpose as Christian, abbot, and writer. He emphasizes the place of the crucified Christ at the center of Aelred's life while calling spiritual friendship--not only personal but cosmological--the "hermeneutic key" to his teaching.
Other formats
Online version: Burton, Pierre-André. Aelred de Rievaulx, 1110-1167. English Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press, [2020]
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 09, 2021
Series
Cistercian studies series ; number two hundred seventy-six
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Historiography, methods, and perspectives
The foundation of Rievaulx : the historical and religious context of Aelred's life
Aelred's intellectual development, and life at the Scottish court
Aelred's conversion (1134)
Aelred's monastic instruction (1134-1140)
Teacher of humanity and the mirror of charity (1140-1143) : Aelred, a "new" man, and multiple inner paradigm shifts
Key events : foundation of Revesby (1143) and election at Rievaulx (1147)
Aelred : a master architect building a community
Aelred's social and political engagements
Toward a mystical theology of history, or, the cosmic mystery of the cross of Christ
General conclusions. from divided man to unified being in Christ : configuring the self and the world in Christ; Aelred's universal mystical theology of history.
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