Joan Chittister
Joan Chittister is a member and former prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie and currently the executive director of the Alliance for International Monasticism (AIM). She is the author of Psalm Journal, Winds ... [... more]
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St. Benedict
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Benedict has for centuries been the guide of religious communities. St. Benedict's rules of obedience, humility, and ... [... more]
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Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and the Confessions ...
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Historical Atlas of Eastern and Western Monasticism
From common origins, both African and Middle Eastern, Christian monasticism travels along two parallel streams, branched and informed by mutual influences: the Eastern and the Western. In The Historical Atlas of Eastern and Western Christian Monasticism ... [... more]
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Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and the Confessions ...
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The Inner Room: A Journey into Lay Monasticism
Dynamic AND Simple, and Livable Too This is a book that is an easy read, but not frivolous by any means. The author uses an interesting approach of switching between autobiography (as a springboard) and teaching about lay monasticism. This is a book you ... [... more]
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Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western ...
For a thousand years the monasteries and religious orders played a major role in the society, economy and culture of the west and this book traces the Western monastic tradition in its social context, from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of ... [... more]
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Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the ...
The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism. Gives particular ... [... more]
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Lovers of the Place: Monasticism Loose in the Church
Splendid but not what you might think I read this book because I thought the subtitle "Monasticism Loose in the World" meant it might be useful to me as a Cistercian lay contemplative. Kline is the abbot of the Trappist house in South Carolina, ... [... more]
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The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to ...
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the emergence of monasticism from its roots in late antiquity and its transition to the early medieval West. Beginning with the search for individual perfection in the context of the religious ... [... more]
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Flirting With Monasticism: Finding God on Ancient Paths
This is the true story of Karen Sloan's breathlessly confusing and ultimately fulfilling year in the company of a Dominican novitiate. Flirting with Monasticism is a courtship of sorts: a young would-be pastor learning ancient prayers and practices from ... [... more]
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Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing
Fleeing the compromises of the 4th century church, the Desert Fathers founded monasticism. In reaction to a Christianity they scarcely recognized, these radicals fled to the Egyptian desert to model a different, radical style of discipleship, filled with ... [... more]
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