From the Monastery to the City: Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi by Haight, Roger

From the Monastery to the City: Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781531506018)

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From the Monastery to the City: Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi by Haight, Roger

From the Monastery to the City: Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi

$9.95
From the Monastery to the City: Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi by Haight, Roger

From the Monastery to the City: Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi

$9.95
Format: Paperback
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This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thir-teenth-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.

Author: Roger Haight
ISBN-10: 1531506011
ISBN-13: 9781531506018
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2023
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d
By Roger Haight
By Roger Haight
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Alfred Pach (Edited By)
Alfred Pach III is an Associate Professor of Medical Sciences and Global Health at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an MDiv in Psychology and Religion from Union Theological Seminary.

Amanda Avila Kaminski (Edited By)
Amanda Avila Kaminski is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Texas Lutheran University, where she also serves as Director of the program in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. She has written extensively in the area of Christian spirituality.

Roger Haight (Edited By)
Roger Haight, a Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York, has written several books in the area of fundamental theology. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

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