Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship Aelred of RievaulxPaperback
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…
Specifikacia Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship Aelred of RievaulxPaperback
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
Aelred of Rievaulx
Spiritual Friendship
Calculus of Friendship
Testament of Friendship
Art of Friendship
The Secret of Friendship
In Praise of Friendship
Friendship Poems of Rumi
Principle of Spiritual Economy
Proof of Spiritual Phenomena