Mechthild of Hackeborn: The Book of Special Grace
Bernard McGinn (Editor in Chief Emeritus)
The Book of Special Grace
associated with Mechthild of Hackeborn is a
fine example of a book that was widely read in its day but then lost much of
its popularity and remained influential only indirectly, through
abridgements and imitations. Barbara Newman’s presentation of Mechthild
and her work helps us to understand some reasons why her star might have
waned. Unlike The Herald of God’s Loving Kindness, which it so closely resembled,it lacked an explicit seal of approval for its orthodoxy. And itsrelentlessly cheerful mood might have marked it as sentimental or
superficial among readers expecting to be led through the valley of the
shadow of death. If one looks at the smiling, rosy cheeked figures in the art
of Sibilla von Bondorf, it is easy to imagine them as the nuns at Helfta
depicted by Mechthild. What Newman makes more abundantly clear is why
the book deserves a renewed audience: the convent at Helfta may have had
a precarious existence, the nuns may easily have fallen victim to diseases
that shortened their years, and after Mechthild and the early members of the
community passed from the scene, the house may have entered a crisis in
leadership, but for all that, the book represents the flowering of a radiant
spirituality that brought personal experience and the life of a worshiping
community into vivid contact with the transcendent.
associated with Mechthild of Hackeborn is a
fine example of a book that was widely read in its day but then lost much of
its popularity and remained influential only indirectly, through
abridgements and imitations. Barbara Newman’s presentation of Mechthild
and her work helps us to understand some reasons why her star might have
waned. Unlike The Herald of God’s Loving Kindness, which it so closely resembled,it lacked an explicit seal of approval for its orthodoxy. And itsrelentlessly cheerful mood might have marked it as sentimental or
superficial among readers expecting to be led through the valley of the
shadow of death. If one looks at the smiling, rosy cheeked figures in the art
of Sibilla von Bondorf, it is easy to imagine them as the nuns at Helfta
depicted by Mechthild. What Newman makes more abundantly clear is why
the book deserves a renewed audience: the convent at Helfta may have had
a precarious existence, the nuns may easily have fallen victim to diseases
that shortened their years, and after Mechthild and the early members of the
community passed from the scene, the house may have entered a crisis in
leadership, but for all that, the book represents the flowering of a radiant
spirituality that brought personal experience and the life of a worshiping
community into vivid contact with the transcendent.
عام:
2017
الإصدار:
1st
الناشر:
Paulist Press
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
295
ISBN 10:
1587686317
ISBN 13:
9781587686313
ISBN:
B07PCV8DKH
سلسلة الكتب:
The Classics of Western Spirituality
ملف:
EPUB, 447 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2017
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