The Mirror of Charity / / Aelred of Rievaulx.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rievaulx, Aelred of,
• MitwirkendeR: Dumont, Charles,; OCSO, Charles Dumont,; OCSO, Elizabeth Connor,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Monastic Studies Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; Table of Abbreviations --; Translator's Preface --; Introduction. AELRED OF RIEVAULX: HIS LIFE AND WORKS --; A Letter of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux to Abbot Aelred --; The Preface of Abbot Aelred --; The Titles of the Chapters of Book One --; The Titles of the Chapters of Book Two --; The Titles of the Chapters of Book Three --; BOOK ONE --; BOOK TWO --; BOOK THREE --; TABLE OF SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463218300; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463218300
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Aelred of Rievaulx.

Aelred of Rievaulx possessed a personal charm which drew friends and disciples naturally to him. His own experience of human weakness in a worldly life at the court of King David of Scotland made him sensitive to the doctrine of charity which he found among Cistercian monks. The Mirror of Charity gives us a solid theology of the Cistercian life. Because the divine nature is love, as the Bible tells us, directing our love to God-love conforms us to the image of God that has been lost through sin. All love, to Aelred, is a participation in God-love that leads us to union.