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"However much advanced scholarship and great learning in God's law may be quite suitable for the person who wishes to come to the height of contemplation, nevertheless sometimes such knowledge blocks this pursuit. Learning is not in itself a problem. Rather, it is the arrogance and the self-inflation that the learned person derives from his knowledge. For it is clearly impossible to reach true contemplation except through humility, as the Apostle teaches (1 Cor 3:18). For if anyone, he says, seems wise in this world, he must become a fool in order to be wise. In other words, he should take on humble understanding and consider himself a fool with regard to God's wisdom. From The Mountain of Contemplation [2] Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chancellor of the University of Paris from 1395 until his death, was one of the outstanding theologians and preachers of his time. Today he is all but forgotten, except in terms of his role in resolving the schism of the Western Church. Gerson deserves to be seen as a man of great passion and learning. He sought to map the path to the contemplative life in a way that made it accessible to groups outside the universities. Partly because of continuing closeness to members of his family, especially his sisters, Gerson insisted on writing many of his works in French. His Mountain of Contemplation is a major event in the history of language and in terms of gender relations in the religious life. Gerson knew how innovative his approach was, for he opened his treatise with the words: "Some persons will wonder and ask why, in a matter so lofty as that of the contemplative life, I choose to write in French rather than in Latin, and more to women than to men." Thanks to Gerson's personal letters, translated here for the first time, it is possible to get close to the doubts and pain of a man who sought the vision of god and yearned for affective bonds. Gerson's life and writings can be seen as a search for unity in the midst of a rich and chaotic age whose spirituality we are only now beginning to appreciate. In giving advice to confessors, attacking the Romance of the Rose, preaching on the feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, discerning between true and false revelations, and in outlining his Practical Mystical Theology, Gerson emerges as one of the most articulate voices of a Christian spirituality that transcends the Middle Ages and speaks to our time. Jean Gerson: Early Works: Brian Patri: 9780809138203 Jean Gerson: Early Works (9780809138203) Classics of Western Spirituality: Paulist Press / 1998 / Trade Paperback $2246 Retail: Early Works by Jean Gerson Brian Patrick McGuire Buy Early Works by Jean Gerson Buy Early Works by Jean Gerson Classics; Contemporary Fiction; Fiction in Translation; Classics of Western Spirituality Series LibraryThing Common Knowledge Series Classics of Western Spirituality Series: Classics of Western Spirituality Series by cover Jean Gerson: Early Works by Jean Gerson: Jean Gerson: Early Works (Classics of Western Spirituality Jean Gerson: Early Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) (9780809104987): Jean Gerson Paperback Verified Purchase 0809104989 - Jean Gerson: Early Works Classics of Western Jean Gerson: Early Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) Early Works Classics of Western Spirituality by Jean Gerson You Searched For: ISBN: 0809104989 : jean gerson: Books Jean Gerson: Early Works (Classics of Western Spirituality Early Works (Classics of Western Spirituality Paperback; Hardcover; Jean Gerson: Early Works (Classics Of Western Spirituality Early Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) translations of selected early works Jean Gerson: Early Classics Of Western Spirituality) By Jean JEAN GERSON EARLY WORKS CLASSICS OF WESTERN SPIRITUALITY jean gerson early works classics of western spirituality series jean gerson early works paperback inventing for fun and profit crime and control in early colonial Jean Gerson - Wikipedia see Brian Patrick McGuire (tr) Jean Gerson: Early Works Classics of Western Spirituality (New York 1988) Jean Gerson: Selections from A Deo exivit Jean Gerson: Early Works by Jean Gerson Reviews Translations of the early writings of Jean Gerson Jean Gerson: Early Works during the western Schism which began in 1378 Gerson is considered
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