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Beyond Measure, Volume 279: The Poetics of the Image in Bernard of Clairvaux
Category: Books > Spirituality > Classics
Author/Artist: ISAAC SLATER
ISBN / ID: 9780879072797
Publisher: Cistercian Pub
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$84.95
  
Description: Bernard of Clairvaux continually returns to the classical idea that the quality of desire shapes theological imagination. He develops and applies this insight, uncovering a new depth of unity to the literary, philosophical, and theological strands densely interwoven through his writings.

Bernard's apparent iconoclasm with respect to art, affectivity, and the humanity of Jesus is revealed as an alternative mystical aesthetic, congruent with his program for monastic reform. The central movement of Cistercian spirituality from the carnal to the spiritual is shown not to elide but recapitulate the carnal in higher spiritual expression. Further, this approach provides fresh understanding of the ways in which Bernard is at once "last of the fathers" and "first of the moderns."

In particular, a careful reading of the book's chapters by Julia Kristeva and Jean-Luc Marion on Bernard reveals both the enduring brightness and vitality of his writing and the relevance of his work for people today.
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