1st Edition
Signs and Wonders Saints, Miracles and Prayer from the 4th Century to the 14th
By Benedicta Ward
Copyright 1992
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages. The first group of articles focuses on the Desert Fathers, the following ones examine key figures in the monastic history of the medieval West, dealing above all with England and with Bede and Anselm of Canterbury. Throughout, Benedicta Ward's aim has been to find an... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Hagiography and history: an introduction; Apophthegmata Matrum; Signs and wonders: miracles in the Desert tradition; The desert of the heart: importance of the Desert Fathers today; The image of the prostitute, from the 4th to the 12th centuries; Traditions of spiritual guidance: spiritual direction in the Desert Fathers; Discernment: a rare bird; A Tractarian inheritance: the religious life in a Patristic perspective; The miracles of St Benedict; Miracles and history: a reconsideration of the miracle stories used by Bede; The spirituality of St Cuthbert; Theodore of Tarsus: a Greek archbishop of Canterbury; Bede and the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons; A converting ordinance: Bede and the hymns of Charles Wesley; Translator's charity; Anselm of Canterbury: a monastic scholar; The place of Anselm in the development of Christian prayer; "Inward feeling and deep thinking": the prayers and meditations of St Anselm revisited; The Desert myth: reflections on the Desert ideal in early Cistercian monasticism; St Bernard and the Anglican Divines; The relationship between hermits and communities in the 12th century; The wounds of Christ: a medieval devotion and the Methodist revival; Laudabiliter vixit: the death of the Saints in some 12th-century sources; Saints and Sibyls: from Hildegard of Bingen to Teresa of Avila; "Faith seeking understanding": Anselm of Canterbury and Julian of Norwich; Julian the Solitary; Index.
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Benedicta Ward
