{"product_id":"richard-rolle-the-english-works","title":"Rosamund Allen: Richard Rolle [1988] paperback","description":"\"...a milestone in American religious publishing.\"\u003cbr\u003eNew Catholic World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Rolle: The English Works\u003cbr\u003etranslated, edited and introduced by Rosamund S. Allen\u003cbr\u003epreface by Valerie M. Lagorio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you wish to be on good terms with God, and have his grace direct your life, and come to the joy of love, then fix his name 'Jesus' so firmly in your heart that it never leaves your thought.\u003cbr\u003eAnd when you speak to him using your customary name 'Jesu', ' in your ear it will be joy, in your mouth honey, and in your heart melody, because it will seem joy to you to hear that name being pronounced, sweetness to speak it, cheer and singing to \u003cbr\u003ethink it.\" Richard Rolle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is important volume is a modern English translation of Richard Rolle's English writings. Much of the translation is based on Hope Emily Allen's Middle English edition of 1931. It is supplemented by more complete versions of the English Psalter and the Meditations on the Passion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt aims at a presentation of Rolle in today's language, and for readers with a modern approach to spirituality who are interested in the religious aims and idioms of the past. The book also seeks to convey some of Rolle's religious fervor, and above all the\u003cbr\u003emeasured cadence of his prose style, placing him within the context of the ideas and language of his own age.","brand":"Allen, Rosamund","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47053363609939,"sku":"XG80809130085","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/allen-rosamund-richard-rolle-the-english-works-xg80809130085-52107540136275.jpg?v=1694195063","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/richard-rolle-the-english-works","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}