Monasticism In Modern Times

Author : Isabelle Jonveaux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317094387
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monasticism in Modern Times written by Isabelle Jonveaux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber, the sociology of monasticism has received little attention. However, the field is now being revitalized by some new research. Focusing on Christian monks and nuns, the contributors explore continuity and discontinuity with the past in what superficially might appear a monolithic tradition. Contributors speak not only about monasticism in Europe and the United States but also in Africa and Latin America, a different landscape where the question of recruitment does not figure among issues considered as problematic.

Author : Rory McEntee
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608335534
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Monasticism written by Rory McEntee and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Greg Peters
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441227210
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Monasticism written by Greg Peters and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some evangelicals perceive monasticism as a relic from the past, a retreat from the world, or a shirking of the call to the Great Commission. At the same time, contemporary evangelical spirituality desires historical Christian manifestations of the faith. In this accessibly written book Greg Peters, an expert in monastic studies who is a Benedictine oblate and spiritual director, offers a historical survey of monasticism from its origins to current manifestations. Peters recovers the riches of the monastic tradition for contemporary spiritual formation and devotional practice, explaining why the monastic impulse is a valid and necessary manifestation of the Christian faith for today's church.

Author : Isabelle Jonveaux
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317094395
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monasticism in Modern Times written by Isabelle Jonveaux and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber, the sociology of monasticism has received little attention. However, the field is now being revitalized by some new research. Focusing on Christian monks and nuns, the contributors explore continuity and discontinuity with the past in what superficially might appear a monolithic tradition. Contributors speak not only about monasticism in Europe and the United States but also in Africa and Latin America, a different landscape where the question of recruitment does not figure among issues considered as problematic.

Author : Charles Cummings
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0879070501
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastic Practices written by Charles Cummings and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three decades, Monastic Practices has been a valued resource for English-speaking aspirants to monastic life. In this revised edition, updated and expanded, Charles Cummings, OCSO, explores the common practices of the monastic life in order to rediscover them as viable means of leading persons to a deeper encounter with God. How do monks and nuns occupy themselves throughout the day? Have they modernized their lifestyle or is it still cluttered with medieval customs? Could any of the monastic practices be of use to those outside the monastery? A certain wisdom is necessary to know how to use such practices and how to give oneself to them until they lead one to God. After long monastic experience, Cummings shows us how the ordinary things we do constitute our path to God. In the art of living life, he argues, we are always beginners, searching for God through our concrete circumstances and actions.

Author : Jonathan R Wilson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718842952
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World written by Jonathan R Wilson and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World became one of the founding and guiding texts for new monastic communities. In this revised edition, Jonathan Wilson focuses more directly on lessons for these communities from Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue. In the midst of the unsettling cultural shifts from modernity to postmodernity, a new monastic movement is arising that strives to be a faithful witness to the gospel. These new monastic communities seek to participate in Christ's life in the world and bear witness by learning to live intentionally as the church in Western culture. This movement is about finding the church's center in Christ in the midst of a fragmented world, overcoming the failure of the Enlightenment project and our complicity with it, resisting the temptation to Nietzschean power, and building communities of disciples. This new edition is greatly enlarged from the original volume. It includes responses to critics of the new monasticism such as D. A. Carson, an entirely new chapter on the Nietzschean temptation, an afterword on properly understanding the new monastic movement, the dangers it faces, and the work yet to be done, as well as an appendix on the supposed post-modern agenda of Jonathan Wilson and Brian McLaren. For those striving to understand the path the church should take in this fragmented world, this book is essential reading.

Author : Pete Greig
Publisher : Gospel Light Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780830743681
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punk Monk written by Pete Greig and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sacrifice and continual prayer. Who are the new monks, the new punks, the new revolutionaries? The answer lies in an upsurge of 24-7 monastic communities around the world. Punk Monk combines a narrative journey through the beginnings of 24-7 Prayer Boiler Rooms with a discussion on the roots of monasticism, particularly its ethos and values, and how it can be applied in the third millennium. Drawing influences from the Franciscans, the Celts and the Moravians, the book highlights the counter-cultural and revolutionary force of monasticism and asks whether it is time for a new monastic movement. It also takes punk as a contemporary expression of monastic spirit and asks whether a “silent revolution” is coming.

Author : Marilyn Dunn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470795298
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Monasticism written by Marilyn Dunn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.

Author : Clifford Hugh Lawrence
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582491861
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Monasticism written by Clifford Hugh Lawrence and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world from which they drew recruits. This Third Edition contains new thoughts and perspectives throughout.

Author : Graham Cray
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848253435
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Monasticism as Fresh Expressions of Church written by Graham Cray and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the emergence of monastic spirituality - not just as a resource for personal formation, but for building fresh expressions of church.Leaders of traditional religious communities and emerging 'new monastic' communities tell their stories,reflecting on how an ancient expression of being church is inspiring and shaping a new one