Signs and Wonders: Saints, Miracles and Prayer from the 4th Century to the 14th

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Pub. Date: 1992-02-28
Publisher(s): Variorum
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Summary

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 approach that makes full sense of Christian writings, notably the hagiography, miracles and all. This should not be seen, she argues, simply as biography, nor as a quarry for information on social history, valuable though it may be for those purposes. The primary object of these Lives - as of the people about whom they were written - was religious; to neglect this meaning is to risk fundamentally misunderstanding these texts.Ce volume traite des concepts de la sainteté et de la spiritualité chrétiennes, de l'Antiquité tardive jusqu'au Moyen Age. Le premier groupe d'études se concentre sur les Pères du Désert, les suivants font l'examen de personnages-clefs dans l'histoire monastique de l'Occident médiéval, s'attachant avant tout à l'Angleterre et à Bède et Anselme de Cantorbéry. Benedicta Ward à pour propos constant de trouver une approche rendent tout son sens à la litterature chrétienne et notamment à la littérature hagiographique, miracles et autres. Bien que valable à ces deux niveaux, ceci ne devrait pas être perçu, souligne-t'elle, en tant que simple biographie, ni en tant que source d'information sur l'histoire sociale. L'objet premier de ces Vies est d'ordre religieux; toute négligence de ce sens peut mener à une mécompréhension fondamentale de ces textes.

Table of 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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