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SERMONS ON THE SONG OF SONGS VOLUME 2 IBD

CISTERCIAN PUBLICATIONS
02 / 2022
9780879076320
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Sinopsis

Taking up Saint BernardâÇÖs unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in forty-eight sermons, leaving the task to be finished by John of Ford. This volume contains sermons 16 throughá32.To encounter a person who makes holiness attractive is an enviable experience. Such a person was Gilbert of Hoyland, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Swineshead in Lincolnshire, a friend of Aelred of Rievaulx, and the continuator of the sermons on the Song of Songs begun by Bernard of Clairvaux.áWhen the great saint of Clairvaux died in 1153, his sermon commentary had reached only the first four verses of chapter three of the Canticle. Gilbert took up the task, but left the commentary unfinished at his death. It was brought to completion by another English abbot, John of Ford.áThose who know and admire BernardâÇÖs eloquence and contemplative insight will enjoy making the acquaintance of his successors. While conscious of continuing BernardâÇÖs work and remaining true to his spirit, they infused their sermons with their own personalities and shared their own rich experiences of God. As Lawrence C. Braceland says in his introduction to this first English translation of GilbertâÇÖs work, âÇÖGilbert is an experience. He has found the Beloved.âÇÖ

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