The Brotherhood of the Common Life and Its InfluenceSUNY Press, 1 jan 1995 - 353 pagina's 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. |
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The Three Lives | xxiii |
Revaluations | 19 |
The Search for the True Image | 51 |
The New Devotion | 79 |
The Mixed Life | 97 |
The City of the Moon | 113 |
The Daily Work | 131 |
The Ordering of Daily Life in England | 173 |
The Place of the Monastery | 209 |
Notes | 245 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Index | 329 |
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able action ancient asceticism attention Aungier awakening become begin Bernard Blunt body Brethren Bridgettines Brother Brotherhood called Carthusian Christ Christian church Cisneros Colet contemplation Counter-Reformation Desert Fathers Deventer Devotion Dyurnall emotion English Erasmus experience Fewterer fo Ficino Gerard Groote grace heart holy humanist Hylton Hyma Ibid Index influence inner intention John Kempis knowledge laymen lectio divina living London Lord man's material meaning medieval meditation Medylde mind mixed monastery monastic monasticism monk movement Myroure mystical Observant oneself outer P. S. Allen Passion Philokalia Pico Post practical pray prayer question quoted Reformation relationship religion religious remember Renaissance renewal Richard Rolle rule Ryckes saints sense sigs sixteenth century soul speak spiritual exercises Syon Syon's teaching texts things thou thought tion tradition translation Trinkaus truth understanding unto virtue Wessel Whytford William of St Windesheim wish words Ymage Zerbolt