Aelred of Rievaulx’s Relational Anthropology in Socio-Historical and Religious Context
Sungho Lee
The Cistercian monk, Aelred of Rievaulx, is unique in his emphasis on relationship with others. While Aelred’s socio-historical context—that a twelfth-century Renaissance, community, its increased friendship—contributed to relational anthropology, I argue that possessed own vision, and out passionate love was active pursuing unity between secular religious communities, also other persons communities. This vision action, which highly consonant contemporary embedded the theological anthropology writings, where he confirms essence human being relational.
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