{"id":98510,"date":"2021-01-12T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98510"},"modified":"2021-01-12T06:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T11:18:40","slug":"aelred-of-rievaulx-for-his-feast-day-what-friendship-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98510","title":{"rendered":"Aelred of Rievaulx for his Feast Day&#8211;What Friendship is"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>10. What statement about friendship can be more sublime, more true, more valuable than this: it has been proved that friendship must begin in Christ, continue with Christ, and be perfected by<br \/>\nChrist. Come, now: propose what in your opinion should be the first question about friendship.<\/p>\n<p>IVO. I think we should first discuss what friendship is, lest we appear to be painting on a void, not knowing what should guide and organize our talk.<\/p>\n<p>11. AELRED. Is Cicero\u2019s definition not an adequate beginningfor you? \u201cFriendship is agreement in things human and divine, with good will and charity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>12. IVO. If his definition suffices for you, it\u2019s good enough for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Aelred of Rievaulx <strong>Spiritual Friendship<\/strong> I.10-12 (Lawrence C. Braceland, tr., Marsha L. Dutton ed., Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2010), p.57<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we celebrate my saint&#39;s day, Saint Aelred of Rievaulx ie Alfred (born 1110 \u2014 died Jan 12, 1167), english Cistercian abbot, writer and historian. His greatest work is a treaty on friendship De spirituali amicitia, a Christian counterpart of Cicero\u2019s De amicitia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X7sl3SoZEy\">pic.twitter.com\/X7sl3SoZEy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alfredo Ingelmo (@AIngelmo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIngelmo\/status\/1348872339354775554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. What statement about friendship can be more sublime, more true, more valuable than this: it has been proved that friendship must begin in Christ, continue with Christ, and be perfected by Christ. Come, now: propose what in your opinion<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98510\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98512,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98510\/revisions\/98512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}