Entering the Twofold Mystery : On Christian Conversion

Varden, Erik

Bloomsbury Continuum（2022/01発売）

Bloomsbury Continuum（2022/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781472979476
• DDC分類 248.4

Full Description

A book about the insight, comfort, and direction our troubled age can find in monastic wisdom.

Erik Varden published The Shattering of Loneliness in 2018. Now, with the world in the throes of uncertainty and turbulence, he helps us interpret the signs of the times, convinced that the perennial experience of monks and nuns has much to teach us.

The principles of monasticism have become attractive to many, awakened as we are to the importance of integrity, the pursuit of peace, asceticism as a path to freedom, hospitality and contemplative seeing.

After a deeply personal introduction, Varden invites us to consider what makes a monk. He then takes us on a pilgrimage through the Church's year, drawing on Scripture, tradition and literary and religious figures of our time.

Varden lets the reader discover the generous breadth and depth of a monk's outlook on life. In so doing he provides inspiration, enjoyment and enlightenment in equal measure.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART ONE: WHAT MAKES A MONK
1 Vows
2 Patrimony
3 The Heart's Expansion

PART TWO: A MONASTIC YEAR
4 Seasons
5 Ordinary Time
6 Saints

Appendix: Vision
Notes on the Text
Notes