The Venerable Bede on Prayer and Contemplation

As a monk at the famous Northumbrian monastery of Jarrow, the Venerable Bede (673–735) produced a body of exegetical work that enjoyed enormous popularity throughout the Middle Ages. Something of that spirit seems to have reawakened in recent years, as Bede's commentaries are increasingly being...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeGregorio, Scott (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Cambridge University Press 1999
In: Traditio
Year: 1999, Volume: 54, Pages: 1-39
Online Access: Volltext (JSTOR)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

MARC

LEADER 00000naa a22000002 4500
001 1798039419
003 DE-627
005 20220407053605.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 220407s1999 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1017/S0362152900012186  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1798039419 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1798039419 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |a DeGregorio, Scott  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
109 |a DeGregorio, Scott  |a Gregorio, Scott de  |a De Gregorio, Scott 
245 1 4 |a The Venerable Bede on Prayer and Contemplation 
264 1 |c 1999 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a As a monk at the famous Northumbrian monastery of Jarrow, the Venerable Bede (673–735) produced a body of exegetical work that enjoyed enormous popularity throughout the Middle Ages. Something of that spirit seems to have reawakened in recent years, as Bede's commentaries are increasingly being studied and made available to wider audiences in English translation. One distinctive feature of this development is a growing awareness that Bede's reputation as an exegete is more multifaceted than has been previously realized, that it goes beyond what Beryl Smalley called “his faithful presentation of the tradition in its many aspects. Whereas earlier interpreters were content to regard Bede as a mere compiler reputed for his good sense and able Latinity, scholars are now paying homage to him as a penetrating and perceptive biblical commentator who did more than reproduce the thought of the fathers who preceded him. As I intend to show in what follows, Bede's treatment of prayer and contemplation in his exegesis attests well to this quality of his thought. The topic to date has received only minimal commentary, mainly on what Bede actually taught about prayer. My approach will be different. I begin with a discussion not of Bede's exegetical method but of his occupations and aims as a spiritual writer. Neither Bede's spirituality nor his role as spiritual writer have received the attention they deserve, and it is hoped that the reflections offered here will help rekindle interest in these neglected subjects. I then consider four prayer-related themes in his exegesis that bring his aims as a spiritual writer into view. Patristic tradition had commented widely on prayer, and Bede, we will see, did not set out to summarize this tradition in its entirety but rather to highlight and distill certain themes within it, those that best suited the needs of his Anglo-Saxon audience. 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Traditio  |d Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1943  |g 54(1999), Seite 1-39  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)625423445  |w (DE-600)2551239-0  |w (DE-576)326863265  |x 2166-5508  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:54  |g year:1999  |g pages:1-39 
856 |3 Volltext  |u http://www.jstor.org/stable/27831970  |x JSTOR 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1017/S0362152900012186  |x Resolving-System  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
856 4 0 |u https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/traditio/article/abs/venerable-bede-on-prayer-and-contemplation/6F3A5411B145488B676D7A85C6AC54EF  |x Verlag  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
935 |a mteo 
936 u w |d 54  |j 1999  |h 1-39 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
ITA |a 1  |t 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 4112921136 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1798039419 
LOK |0 005 20220407053605 
LOK |0 008 220407||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 035   |a (DE-Tue135)IxTheo#2022-03-29#A22025AD161A2DA52EE5B616DA4D8E741B47A2D2 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 866   |x JSTOR#http://www.jstor.org/stable/27831970 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzs  |a ixrk  |a zota 
ORI |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw