Angels and Earthly Creatures
Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher''s human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their ...
Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher''s human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their ...
