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The Monastic Life: Benedict of Nursia
The Search for a Holy Life
A Brief Overview of Medieval Monasticism
Thomas Kay is Professor of History at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
Bernard Lives Today
Cistercians around the world continue to live the monastic life of which Bernard of Clairvaux was the propagator and theologian.
M. Basil Pennington, ocso, is a Benedictine monk, and a leading contemporary exponent of the monastic way of life. Among his various scholarly and popular writings, he has edited and contributed to the books Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Studies Commemorating the Eighth Centenary of His Canonization and The Cistercian Spirit (Cistercian Publications). He lives at Assumption Abbey in Ava, Missouri.
540 Benedict Writes His Monastic Rule
His flexible, compassionate guidelines for Christian community forever shaped monastic life—and influenced Western society.
Dr. Bennett D. Hill is professor of history at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Francis of Assisi 1181-1220: Christian History Timeline
Joanne Schatzlein, O.S.F., is congregation administrator at Sisters of Saint Francis of Assisi in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fractures in Francis's Order
How should his followers obey his instructions?
Controversial Passages
Good Habits
Benedictines, Franciscans, and Dominicans all sought to live by high ideals, but only one order matched Thomas's love for both spirituality and intellect.
Steven Gertz
Into the desert: the first monks
Simon Tugwell
Return to simplicity: Francis, Dominic and the friars
Simon Tugwell
Scripture Saturation
To achieve holiness, believed the early monks, you must soak in the moral sense of the Word.
Patrick Henry Reardon
Bishop Before His Time
Samuel Ajayi Crowther's consecration as the first African Anglican bishop looked like a great leap forward for the church. But the talented ex-slave collided with the roadblock of racism
Ted Olsen
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