An ancient lifestyle which has been adapted, renewed, and is still being followed today, monasticism appears to some outside it as a quaint anachronism and to others as the sanest of all ways of living. Can it survive in the post post-modern world? A dozen insiders and outsiders-monastics, academics, clergy, laypersons, hermits, cenobites, poets, and writers-offer their reflections on the future of the monastic life of prayer and community.An ancient lifestyle which has been adapted, renewed, and is still being followed today, monasticism appears to some outside it as a quaint anachronism and to others as the sanest of all ways of living. Can it survive in the post post-modern world? A dozen insiders and outsiders -- monastics, academics, clergy, laypersons, hermits, cenobites, poets, and writers -- offer their reflections on the future of the monastic life of prayer and community.

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ISBN: 9780879070571
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: CISTERCIAN PUBLICATIONS - published 01/02/2007
Format: Paperback