The Nature and Dignity of Love

Volume 30

von William of Saint-Thierry

132 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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'...

• Reihe: Cistercian Fathers Series
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Christentum Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Gruppen Katholizismus, römisch-katholische Kirche
• ISBN: 9780879079307
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.1981
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Cistercian Publications