Parables

Bernard of Clairvaux's Mapping of Spiritual Topography
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15503-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 148, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Parables. It lays out a spiritual topography which is linked to the rumination of the Bible. The topography ranges across such locations as Paradise, Babylon, the bridegroom's chamber, and the Celestial Jerusalem, and man navigates it in the character of peregrinus and viator.
The first part of the study addresses the spiritual topography and the hermeneutics of its mapping. The second and larger part examines each of Bernard's eight parables and the ways in which he reformulates issues central to monastic tradition – militia Christi, for example, God's image and likeness in man, contemptus mundi, the quest for beatitude – as voyages within spiritual landscapes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birkedal Bruun, Mette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I. SEMANTIC FRAME OF RESONANCE
1. Mappings
2. Topographies
3. Topographical Anthropology
4. Memory
5. Conclusion and transition

PART II. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX’S PARABLES
1. Introduction
2. Par I, De filio regis
3. Par II, De conflictu duorum regum
4. Par III, De filio regis sedente super equum
5. Par IV, De ecclesia quae captiva erat in Aegypto
6. Par V, De tribus filiabus regis
7. Par VI, De Aethiopissa quam filius regis duxit uxorem
8. Par VII, De octo beatitudinibus
9. Par VIII, De rege et servo quem dilexit

Epilogue

Bibliography
General index
Index of Bernard's texts

Über Autor(innen)

Mette B. Bruun, Ph.D. (2000) in Theology, University of Aarhus, research fellow, Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, University of Copenhagen, has published on Cistercians and co-edited anthologies on ritual and cultural history, e.g. The Appearances of Medieval Rituals (Brepols, 2004).