{"product_id":"spiritual-friendship-by-aelred-of-rievaulx","title":"Spiritual Friendship by Aelred Of Rievaulx","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bookpage\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSpiritual Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 '1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it \"a mother of mercy\" to those in need. In a three-book Ciceronian dialogue Aelred defines human friendship as sacramental, beginning in creation, as God sought to place his own love of society in all his creatures, linking friends to Christ in this life and culminating in friendship with God in beatitude. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cem\u003esoftcover used book \/ condition fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Secret Teachings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67665298981049,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/4026\/2073\/files\/Untitled_design-241.png?v=1791427750","url":"https:\/\/secretteachings.co\/products\/spiritual-friendship-by-aelred-of-rievaulx","provider":"Secret Teachings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}