Gold & Godliness
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2025
- Dr Timothy Schroder, DLITT, FSA
Gold and silver have always played a role in church ritual and ceremony, though at some times more conspicuously than at others. In medieval and Renaissance Europe, when ‘princes of the church’ were as powerful, almost, as secular rulers, gold was used for sacred ornaments to reflect the church's wealth and status. But there was a theology of gold too, highlighted in the great debate between Abbot Suger of St Denis and St Bernard of Clairvaux, with Suger arguing that gold reflected the glory and perfection of God, while Bernard held the other view, that precious metal locked up valuable resources that should be used to relieve the poor and promote God’s work. The argument has rumbled on ever since.
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