PirateBay Download | hadewijch complete works classics western spirituality

hadewijch complete works classics western spirituality

Type:: E-books
Files:: 3
Size:: 3.3 MB
Uploaded On:: Aug. 26, 2014, 12:50 a.m.
Added By:: pharmakate
Seeders:: 0
Leechers:: 1
Info Hash:: B72497CBEAA90BAA762C5BAD493656C62BBE8B70

Mother Columba Hart (trans. & intro.) & Paul Mommaers (preface) - Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Paulist Press, 1980). Classics of Western Spirituality series. 412 pages. New scan. Searchable pdf (clearscan) with contents in bookmarks, accurate metadata and pagination, etc. description: Belonging to the early thirteenth century, Hadewijch brings us a spiritual message of extraordinary power. She was endowed in no less degree than St. Teresa of Avila with the gifts of visionary mysticism and literary genius. She felt herself strongly a woman, as can be seen from her choosing to join the women's movement of her day, that of the Beguines, who dedicated themselves to a life of true spirituality without taking the veil. Hadewijch understood that she was called to communicate to others the profound knowledge of the things of God granted to her in her mystical life. She directed her apostolate to some younger Beguines, and nearly all her writings, both prose and poetry, were intended for them. She mentions other spiritual friends, some in distant countries. Her experiences and her message, however , however, remained hidden; she attained to no celebrity among her contemporaries. The way of immediate fame was for other women mystics. St. Hildegard (1098-1179), the visionary and writer, enjoyed high reputation Clairvaux, and crowned heads. Hadewijch's contemporary, St. Lutgard (1183-1246), was widely known for her visions of the Sacred Heart, which won her the friendship of persons like the Master General of the Dominican Order and Duchess Marie of Brabant (daughter of King Louis VIII of France), and after her death made her tomb a place of pilgrimage. Where Hadewijch was buried, however, no one knows and her writings, after passing through the hands of John of Ruusbroec and his circle, were lost to sight until the nineteenth century. Since the rediscovery of Hadewijch, her importance has been progressively appreciated, and the hidden dimension of her life is now open so that we may share it according to the particular needs of our own day.

Get This Torrent

Filelist not found 0 bytes

Details for: Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)

hadewijch complete works classics western spirituality