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High King of Heaven : Aspects of Early English Spirituality
by: Benedicta Ward
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Condition: New
Binding: Paper Back
Author: Benedicta Ward
Publisher: Cistercian Publications (January 2006)
ISBN: 0879077816
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Benedicta Ward has spent a lifetime giving us books and translations shedding light on the early monastic tradition. She characteristically directs our gaze not at what she says, but on what the sources say, thereby revealing the essence of that tradition, applicable not just monastically but universally. This new book is no exception. In seven short essays, Ward opens windows onto the dawn of English and Irish Christianity: the influence of Gregory the Great and his Pastoral Care; a sketch of early Irish piety via Bede and others; early Anglo-Saxon liturgical life; veneration of saints; the extent and nature of eremitic monasticism; Anglo-Saxon prayers; and the centrality of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon piety, especially in the wake of the devastation of Danish pillage in the late eighth century
Benedicta Ward has spent a lifetime giving us books and translations shedding light on the early monastic tradition. She characteristically directs our gaze not at what she says, but on what the sources say, thereby revealing the essence of that tradition, applicable not just monastically but universally. This new book is no exception. In seven short essays, Ward opens windows onto the dawn of English and Irish Christianity: the influence of Gregory the Great and his Pastoral Care; a sketch of early Irish piety via Bede and others; early Anglo-Saxon liturgical life; veneration of saints; the extent and nature of eremitic monasticism; Anglo-Saxon prayers; and the centrality of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon piety, especially in the wake of the devastation of Danish pillage in the late eighth century
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