Johnson, Ella

This is My Body: Eucharistic Theology and Anthropology in the Writings of Gertrude the Great of Helfta - Collegeville, Minnesota Liturgical Press 2020 - 246p 21 cm. - Cistercian Studies Series - 280 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index.

Subject(s): Gertrude, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302 | Lord's Supper | Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity,
Gertrude of Helfta and her writings, The Monastery of St. Mary at Helfta, The Doctrine of spiritual senses according to Gertrude`s sources, Gertrude`s Doctrine of the spiritual senses, Do this in memory of me: Ritual, re-membering, and reading, This is my Body: Woman as signifying humanity and Divinity, Gertrude in Context: A Challenge to difference fixed into Dichotomy

"Examines how the writings of the thirteenth-century nun Gertrude the Great of Helfta articulate an innovative relationship between a person's eucharistic devotion and her body"--

9780879072803

2019036576

F01.7 / J630