The Brotherhood of the Common Life and Its Influence

Ross Fuller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

353 Seiten

1995
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-2244-1 (ISBN)

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This book presents a lost tradition of inner work, the way of the householder, which was believed by the Brotherhood of Common Life to have been the teaching of the Apostles. It focuses on the emergence, amidst the decay of medieval culture, of "the mixed life," this reconciliation of action and contemplation, as the essential link between Catholic spirituality and Protestantism. The transmission of this work to lay persons seeking the interior dimensions of their lives without withdrawing from the world is presented.

The hitherto monastic spiritual exercises for strengthening attention are discussed in depth. The traditional and vital Christian knowledge of the human condition, which the Brothers and Sisters verified for themselves, is emphasized, especially the crucial significance of the force of attention in the recollection of oneself and God. The importance of strengthening attentive awareness is everywhere alluded to in the sources, but virtually ignored in current accounts of the Christian heritage.

The book traces a transmission of spiritual exercises supported by a strongpsychological base that is strangely familiar to the climate of today's search for meaning.

List of Illustrations

A Personal Preface

Introduction

1. The Three Lives

2. Revaluations

3. The Search for the True Image

4. The New Devotion

5. The Mixed Life

6. The City of the Moon

7. The Daily Work

8. The Ordering of Daily Life in England

9. The Place of the Monastery

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.3.1995
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7914-2244-5 / 0791422445
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-2244-1 / 9780791422441
Zustand	Neuware