Reclaiming Humility : Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition /

Does humility have a place in contemporary life? Were Enlightenment thinkers wrong to reject humility as a "monkish virtue" (Hume) arising from a "slave morality" (Nietzsche)? Australian theologian Jane Foulcher recovers the counter-cultural reading of humility that marked early...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foulcher, Jane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Monastic and religious life.
Humility > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Monasticism and religious orders > Common life.
Vie religieuse et monastique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why humility?
  • Virtue or vice? : humility among the virtues
  • Humility and the self : desert monasticism
  • Interlude: From the desert to the cloister
  • Humility and community : the Rule of Saint Benedict
  • Humility and public life : Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Humility and the other : Christian de Cherge and the monks of Tibhirine
  • Conclusion: Reclaiming humility for the twenty-first century.

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