From the Monastery to the City : Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi Paperback / softback
Edited by Roger Haight, Alfred Pach, Amanda Avila Kaminski
Part of the Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality series
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This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thirteenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe.
In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and spirituality and provides a contrast to the new thing that would be created with the study of theology in the new Aristotelian idiom of the universities.
But equally in contrast to the Benedictine Hildegard, the thirteenth century witnessed a renewed enthusiasm for a more literal following of Christ in a life of penitence and poverty.
This is a life of dependence, not on a superior and enclosed community but on the compassion of society at large.
Francis would join this movement on his own terms, attract a following, and gradually formulate a spirituality that sent signals of the need to reform individual lives and the institutions of the Church.
These two authors, then, are not joined here because of any shared similarity but to help illustrate two quite different spiritualities that animated the lively European twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781531506018
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781531506018