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Reclaiming Humility: Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition Volume 255

Reclaiming Humility: Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition Volume 255

Foulcher, Jane

Paperback

Series: Cistercian Studies, Book 255

Religion General Catholicism

ISBN10: 0879072555
ISBN13: 9780879072551
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Mar 31 2015
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Does humility have a place in contemporary life? Were Enlightenment thinkers wrong to reject humility as a monkish virtue (Hume) arising from a slave morality (Nietzsche)? Australian theologian Jane Foulcher recovers the counter-cultural reading of humility that marked early Christianity and examines its trajectory at key junctures in the development of Western monasticism. Humility emerges not as a moral virtue achieved by human effort but as a way opened by grace--as a divine climate (Christian de Chergé) that we are invited to inhabit.

From fourth-century Egypt to twentieth-century Algeria, via Saint Benedict and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Dr. Foulcher's compelling analysis of theology and practice challenges the church to reclaim Christian humility as essential to its life and witness today.

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