Johnson, Ella

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

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

Chapter 1 Gertrude of Helfta and Her Writings 1
Chapter 2 The Monastery of St. Mary at Helfta 24
Chapter 3 The Doctrine of Spiritual Senses According to Gertrude's Sources
Chapter 4 Gertrude's Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses 97
Chapter 5 "Do This in Memory of Me": Ritual, Re-Membering, and Reading 135
Chapter 6 "This Is My Body": Woman as Signifying Humanity and Divinity 160
Chapter 7 Gertrude in Context: A Challenge to Difference Fixed into Dichotomy 193


"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"--

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Gertrude, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302.


Lord's Supper
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.

F01.7 / J630