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and Neoplatonic theories about psychology with Christian mysticism. It exercised a significant role in later mystical speculation due to the incorporation of large sections of Isaac's work in the anthropological compendium known as
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on the Atlantic coast. He later returned to Stella, where it is known that he lived into the 1170s since in one of his sermons he refers to meeting 'Saint' Bernard - and Bernard was only canonised in 1174.
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O'Connell, Patrick F., Review of "Isaac of Stella. Sermons on the Christian Year", Catholic Books Review, 2019
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Isaac's most popular work was an allegorical commentary on the canon of the Mass in the form of a letter to
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At some time in his later life, most probably in 1167, he left Stella to set up a monastery on the
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The Selected Works of Isaac of Stella: A Cistercian Voice from the Twelfth Century
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The Golden Chain: A Study in the Theological Anthropology of Isaac of Stella
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Isaac's works make use of logical argumentation, influenced by
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The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century
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Born in England, after studies in Paris, he entered the
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England
Archigny
France
Cistercian
Carthusian
Order of Cistercians
Bernard of Clairvaux
abbot
monastery
Île de Ré
John of Canterbury
Alcher of Clairvaux
Aristotelian
Augustine of Hippo
Neoplatonism
Matarasso, Pauline. The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century, Penguin UK, 2006
ISBN
9780141960722
O'Connell, Patrick F., Review of "Isaac of Stella. Sermons on the Christian Year", Catholic Books Review, 2019
Categories
English Cistercians
English theologians
12th-century English clergy
1100s births
1160s deaths

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