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Theologizing friendship : how Amicitia in the thought of Aelred and Aquinas inscribes the scholastic turn
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In Theologizing Friendship, Nathan Lefler revitalises Jean Leclercq's defence of monastic theology, while expanding and qualifying some of the central theses expounded in Leclercq's magisterial The...
In Theologizing Friendship, Nathan Lefler revitalises Jean Leclercq's defence of monastic theology, while expanding and qualifying some of the central theses expounded in Leclercq's magisterial The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. His work contributes to a revised and updated status quaestionis concerning the relationship between classical monastic and scholastic theology, construed in more systematic and speculative terms than those of Leclercq and rendered here through the lens of friendship as a theological topos.In his novel proposal that within the monastic and scholastic milieux
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- Nathan Lefler ; with a foreword by Austin G. Murphy, OSB
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- English
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- Cambridge, England : James Clarke & Co, 2014
- ©2014
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- 1 online resource (193 p.)
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- 9780227902912, 0227902912, 022717481X
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- Front cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Differences between the More Experiential Approach of Monastic Theology and the More Conceptual Approach of Scholastic Theology; 2: The Theological Account of Friendship in Aelred of Rievaulx; 3: The Theological Account of Friendship in Thomas Aquinas; 4: Aelred and Thomas Compared: Analysis, Conclusions, Final Speculations; Selected Bibliography; Back cover