Name: Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship
Brand: Cistercian Publications Inc
SKU: 079703
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Lawrence C. Braceland
ISBN: 9780879079703

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Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 '1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it a mother of mercy" to those in need. In a three-book Ciceronian dialogue Aelred defines human friendship as sacramental, beginning in creation, as God sought to place his own love of society in all his creatures, linking friends to Christ in this life and culminating in friendship with God in beatitude. This fresh new translation makes the work crisply readable, allowing the intellectual and Christian insight of this great Cistercian teacher and writer to speak clearly to today's seekers of love, wisdom, and truth.

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Title: Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship
By: Lawrence C. Braceland, Marsha Dutton
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 176
Vendor: Cistercian Publications Inc
Publication Date: 2010

Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 7 ounces
ISBN: 0879079703
ISBN-13: 9780879079703
Series: Cistercian Studies
Stock No: WW079703

Author Bio

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Marsha L. Dutton is the executive editor of Cistercian Publications. Emeritus professor of English at Ohio University, she is the author of many articles and book chapters on a variety of Cistercian subjects. Dutton is also 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.

Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

Editorial Reviews

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This new edition provides an especially good introduction, extensive bibliography of sources, translations and secondary studies and a crisp, new translation.

Bonnie Thurston, Cistercian Studies Quarterly

This small text provides much to glean, ponder, and in which to delight.

American Benedictine Review