{"product_id":"hadewijch-the-complete-works-classics-of-western-spirituality-9780809122974","title":"Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Each volume has been critically chosen  lucidly translated and excellently introduced by internationally acknowledged scholars. (The publisher) must be praised for its selectivity  overall book format  original cover designs by contemporary artists  and indexes for each volume.\" Theological Studies Hadewijch: The Complete Works translation and introduction by Mother Columbia Hart  O.S.B.  preface by Paul Mummers  S.J. \"May God give us a renewed mind For noble and free love  To make us so new in our life That Love may bless us And renew  with new taste  Those to whom she can give new fullness; Love is the new and powerful recompense Of those whose life renews itself for Love alone.\" Hadewijch (A Beguine of the 13th Century) Belonging to the early thirteenth century  Hadewijch brings us a spiritual message of extraordinary power. She was endowed in no less degree than St. Teresa of Avila with the gifts of visionary mysticism and literary genius. She felt herself strongly a woman  as can be seen from her choosing to join the womens movement of her day  that of the Beguines  who dedicated themselves to a life of true spirituality without taking the veil. Hadewijch understood that she was called to communicate to others the profound knowledge of the things of God granted to her in her mystical life. She directed her apostolate to some younger Beguines  and nearly all her writings  both prose and poetry  were intended for them. She mentions other spiritual friends  some in distant countries. Her experiences and her message  however   however  remained hidden; she attained to no celebrity among her contemporaries. The way of immediate fame was for other women mystics. St. Hildegard (1098-1179)  the visionary and writer  enjoyed high reputation Clairvaux  and crowned heads. Hadewijchs contemporary  St. Lutgard (1183-1246)  was widely known for her visions of the Sacred Heart  which won her the friendship of persons like the Master General of the Dominican Order and Duchess Marie of Brabant (daughter of King Louis VIII of France)  and after her death made her tomb a place of pilgrimage. Where Hadewijch was buried  however  no one knows and her writings  after passing through the hands of John of Ruusbroec and his circle  were lost to sight until the nineteenth century. Since the rediscovery of Hadewijch  her importance has been progressively appreciated  and the hidden dimension of her life is now open so that we may share it according to the particular needs of our own day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666189082677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0809122979","price":45.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780809122974.jpg?v=1782422184","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hadewijch-the-complete-works-classics-of-western-spirituality-9780809122974","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}