Christians have been drawn to monastic life nearly as long as Christianity has existed. Dedicating themselves to prayer, meditation, and good works, men and women in many diverse times and places have been willing to abstain from marriage, sexual relations, and personal ownership to serve God singlemindedly. In this overview of the Latin tradition, Peter King, emeritus senior lecturer of medieval history at Saint Andrew's University, leads readers quickly but deftly along the rugged monastic road from late antique Egypt to ...
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Christians have been drawn to monastic life nearly as long as Christianity has existed. Dedicating themselves to prayer, meditation, and good works, men and women in many diverse times and places have been willing to abstain from marriage, sexual relations, and personal ownership to serve God singlemindedly. In this overview of the Latin tradition, Peter King, emeritus senior lecturer of medieval history at Saint Andrew's University, leads readers quickly but deftly along the rugged monastic road from late antique Egypt to the present day, passing through spectacular expansion in medieval Europe, dissolution during the Reformation, retrenchment at the Counter Reformation, condemnation during the Enlightenment, destruction at the hands of revolutionaries, refoundation and new vigor during the nineteenth and the ecumenical twentieth centuries.
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Add this copy of Western Monasticism: Peter King to cart. $59.90, like new condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1999 by Cistercian Publications.
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Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. Octavo. 482 pp. Tan cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. Barely any visible wear to the boards. Pictorial dust jacket has no tears, only minor creasing along the spine and extremities and some light scratches. Pages are clean and unmarked. Minor scuffing to the edges of the textblock. Tight binding and square textblock. Number 185 in the Cistercian Studies Series. Peter King "leads readers quickly but deftly along the rugged monastic road from late antique Egypt to the present day, " passing through all the major epochs of monasticism's history. Extremely rare to find in hardcover.
