The World is Our Cloister: A Guide to The Modern Religious Life

The World is Our Cloister: A Guide to The Modern Religious Life

by Jennifer Kavanagh
The World is Our Cloister: A Guide to The Modern Religious Life

The World is Our Cloister: A Guide to The Modern Religious Life

by Jennifer Kavanagh

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Overview

The dedicated religious life of monks and nuns has a fascination for many of us—at a distance. We live in the world we have, and it's hard to figure out how to do it in a God-filled way. The World is Our Cloister is about the new religious life; a life to which Protestant, Catholic, Hindu or those with no label can relate. It is a guide to living the devotional life, not behind the walls of a monastery, but in the world. It's about engagement in the world as well as withdrawal, the balance between a life of action and one of contemplation; how to be in the world but not of it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781846940491
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 07/16/2007
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.45(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements     vii
Introduction     1
A Life apart     12
Out into the world     38
In the world...     52
...but not of it     67
Living in community     87
Spiritual direction     99
Spiritual practice     115
Martha or Mary?     134
Faith in action     149
Obedience: faithfulness     164
Poverty: simplicity     174
Chastity     190
Interspirituality     200
Taxing tasks     214
Follow-up questions     216
Further Reading     220
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