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The Rule of Saint Benedict: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 4 (Monastic Wisdom Series, 19, Band 19) - Softcover

Merton, Thomas

 
9780879070199: The Rule of Saint Benedict: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 4 (Monastic Wisdom Series, 19, Band 19)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0879070196 ISBN 13: 9780879070199
Verlag: CISTERCIAN PUBN, 2009

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In his novitiate conferences on the Rule of Saint Benedict, Thomas Merton introduces young men embarking on monastic life to the guiding document of that life. He emphasizes the importance of considering the Rule from a perspective that is neither narrowly legalistic nor overly intellectualized, but marked rather by commitment to the goal of Benedictine monasticism, which is not just to obey the Rule but to love and serve God. The Benedictine life, according to Merton, is simply living the Gospel without fanfare. . . . The mainspring of everything in St. Benedict is the love of Christ 'in Himself, in the poor, in the monastic community, in the individual brethren. . . . This is the key to the monastic life and spirit." Merton gives particular attention to the prologue, in which he finds "the theological foundation of the whole spiritual doctrine of St. Benedict"; key chapters on the abbot and the monastic community, including consideration of monastic work, spiritual reading, and poverty; and especially chapter 7, on the degrees of humility, which he considers the heart of the entire Rule. In these conferences, Merton presents a spiritual commentary on the Rule that provides insight both on his role as a director of prospective young monks and on the foundation of his own commitment to monastic and contemplative life.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Catholic convert, Cistercian monk and hermit, poet, contemplative, social critic, and pioneer of interreligious dialogue, was a seminal figure of twentieth-century American Christianity.



Patrick F. O'Connell is professor of English and theology at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. A founding member and former president of the International Thomas Merton Society, he edits The Merton Seasonal and is coauthor of The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia. He has edited eight previous volumes of Thomas Merton's monastic conferences for the Monastic Wisdom Series, most recently The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology (2016), and he is also editor of Merton's Selected Essays (2013) and Early Essays: 1947-1952 (2015).

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Verlag
CISTERCIAN PUBN
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0879070196
ISBN 13 
9780879070199
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
291
Herausgeber
O'Connell Patrick F.
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