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Spiritual Friendship

Author: Aelred of Rievaulx, Edited by Marsha L. Dutton, Translated by Lawrence C. Braceland

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.

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SKU 9780879079703 Categories Christian Living, Ministry, Theology (13-19), Theology (19+) Tags christian living, friendship, hospitality

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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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Weight	0.3 kg
Dimensions	8.5 × 5.5 × 0.3 cm
ISBN	9780879079703
Date Published	2010
Author	Aelred of Rievaulx, Edited by Marsha L. Dutton, Translated by Lawrence C. Braceland
Publisher	Cistercian Publications
Format	Paperback