Pierre de Reims OP
Pierre de Reims OP
This chapter analyses the sermon delivered by Pierre de Reims, prior of the Dominican house at Paris, Saint-Jacques, from 1227 to 1230. The main points of the sermon can be expressed schematically as follows: Christ ‘marries’ human nature; Christ ‘marries’ the soul through baptism, then through penance. The best way to begin to appreciate how this sermon would have come over to an audience is to paraphrase it with explanations in order to provide help with the ‘art of filling in the blanks’ in the way a 13th-century listener might have done. The themes of Incarnation, baptism, penance, and entry into the religious life are brought together through the image of marriage.
Keywords: sermon, marriage, baptism, penance, Incarnation, religious life, Pierre de Reims
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
