{"product_id":"aelred-of-rievaulx-spiritual-friendship-9780879079703","title":"Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship","description":"Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147-1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it \"a mother of mercy\" to those in need. In a three-book Ciceronian dialogue Aelred defines human friendship as sacramental, beginning in creation, as God sought to place his own love of society in all his creatures, linking friends to Christ in this life and culminating in friendship with God in beatitude. This fresh new translation makes the work crisply readable, allowing the intellectual and Christian insight of this great Cistercian teacher and writer to speak clearly to today's seekers of love, wisdom, and truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDutton, Marsha L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Marsha L. Dutton, professor of medieval literature and director of graduate studies in English at Ohio University, is a longtime student of the works of Aelred of Rievaulx and of other twelfth-century Cistercian writers. She is associate editor of \u003ci\u003eCistercian Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to her many articles on Cistercian thought, Dutton has written the introduction to \u003ci\u003eVita Aelredi\u003c\/i\u003e (CF 57) and edited \u003ci\u003eAelred's The Historical Works and Lives of the Northern Saints\u003c\/i\u003e (CF 56, 71) as well as preparing a critical edition of \u003ci\u003eAelred's Pastoral Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e (CF 73). She was one of the editors of \u003ci\u003eTruth as Gift: Studies in Cistercian History Honoring John R. Sommerfeldt\u003c\/i\u003e (CS 204).","brand":"Cistercian Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726177440018,"sku":"9780879079703","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f2ee352f-8031-4bcb-928a-78421f17be42.jpg?v=1734857127","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/aelred-of-rievaulx-spiritual-friendship-9780879079703","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}