From East to West : a history of monasticism /
People who engage in the search for the Absolute are faced with the same obstacles and try to surmount them in similar ways. Mayeul de Dreuille, a Benedictine monk who has spent a good deal of time in Asia and Africa, shows that problems that seem to us typically modern and Christian (or even Roman...
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Leominster : New York :
Gracewing ; Crossroad Pub.,
1999
Leominster : New York : Gracewing ; Crossroad, 1999 Leominster : Gracewing, 1999 Leominster, Herefordshire : New York, NY : Gracewing ; Crossroad Publishing Co., 1999 Leominster : 1999 |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1 Born Before Christ: Monastic Life in the East. Ch. 1. Hindu Monasticism. Ch. 2. Buddhist Monasticism. Ch. 3. Monasticism and Egyptian Religions. Ch. 4. The Jewish Monastic Ideal: Qumran and the Therapeutes. Ch. 5. Contacts between the East and Christian Monasticism
- Pt. 2. Christian Monasticism. Ch. 6. History. 1. Origins. 2. The Great Founders of the 4th Century. 3. The First Developments of Monastic Spirituality. 4. Monachism at the time of the Islamic expansion. 5. Western monasticism: the Benedictine centuries. 6. Western monasticism: decay and reform up to the French Revolution. 7. Eastern Monasticism. 8. Modern Renewal. 9. The History of Nuns. Ch. 7. Themes of Monastic Spirituality. 1. Search for God. 2. Peace. 3. Silence. 4. Hospitality. 5. Work. 6. Various forms of monastic life. 7. Koinonia. Ch. 8. Convergences. App. I. Present State of the Monastic Orders in the Catholic Church.