The story of monasticism
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,...
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| Glavni autor: | Peters, Greg, 1971- (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Baker Academic,
[2015]
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Sadržaj:
- Introduction: The monastic impulse
- The origins of Christian monasticism
- Of anchorites and cenobites
- The rule
- The flowering of Benedictine monasticism
- Other voices: Celtic, Frankish, and Eastern monasticism
- Challenges of Christendom
- The road to reform
- The Cistercians, Carthusians, and other reforming orders
- Regular canons, hospitallers, and the military orders
- The friars
- Decline or development? : lay piety and religious life in the late medieval era
- The reformers and counter-reformers
- Protestants and monasticism after the Reformation
- Continuing Roman Catholic monastic practice
- Epilogue: Monasticism today and tomorrow.