id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 4x51hh65q5d Laura Marie Grimes Theology as Conversation: Gertrud of Helfta and Her Sisters as Readers of Augustine 2005 .txt text/plain 259 10 41 The fourth chapter analyzes Gertrud's 'Life and Revelations' in the compiled portions of Legatus, especially Books I and V. In Book I her sisters advocate a model of female holiness as converted scholarship, comparing Gertrud to Augustine as an inspired theological teacher formed by a holy community. The second chapter analyzes the work's composition history, described in its Prologue with the feminine and collaborative metaphor of childbirth. cache/4x51hh65q5d.txt txt/4x51hh65q5d.txt