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William of St-Thierry
William of St-Thierry (1075/80–1148), theologian and spiritual writer. About 1120 he was elected Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St-Thierry, near Reims. He formed a close friendship with St Bernard, and in 1135 he resigned his abbacy and joined a group of Cistercians who were establishing a house at Signy in the Ardennes.
William's early works were largely didactic and include a treatise in which he tried to synthesize the teaching of the E. and W. Fathers on the relation of the body and the soul. In 1138 he wrote to Bernard urging him to refute Peter Abelard's views on the Trinity and Redemption. He himself wrote against Abelard and against William of Conches. His other works include two commentaries on the Song of Songs, his Meditativae Orationes, and his famous Epistola ad Fratres de Monte Dei de Vita Solitaria, known as the ‘Golden Letter’ and often attributed to Bernard. |
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "William of St-Thierry." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "William of St-Thierry." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-WilliamofStThierry.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "William of St-Thierry." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-WilliamofStThierry.html |
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William of St-Thierry
William of St-Thierry (c.1085–1148). Christian theologian and mystical writer. Born at Liège and probably educated at Laon, he became a Benedictine and c.1120 was appointed Abbot of St-Thierry, near Reims. He had long been a friend of St Bernard of Clairvaux, whose life he wrote, but did not join the Cistercians until 1135, owing to Bernard's resistance. In his writings he shows wide reading of the Fathers, Greek as well as Latin, and (especially in his Golden Letter) develops an understanding of the soul's knowledge of God through love which lays bare and fosters a kind of kinship with God.
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JOHN BOWKER. "William of St-Thierry." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "William of St-Thierry." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-WilliamofStThierry.html JOHN BOWKER. "William of St-Thierry." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-WilliamofStThierry.html |
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