Rule of Saint Benedict A Contemporary Paraphrase

Name: Rule of Saint Benedict A Contemporary Paraphrase
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ISBN: 9781557259738

ISBN-10: 1557259739

ISBN-13: 9781557259738

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Authors: St. Benedict of Nursia, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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Listen, my child. I want you to put the ear of your heart to the solid ground of the master’s wisdom (what I received, I’m passing on to you). It’s advice from a spiritual father who loves you—the sort of counsel you receive by letting it shape your whole life. Listening is hard work, but it’s the essential work. It opens us up to the God we’ve rejected by only listening to ourselves. If you’re ready to give up your addiction to yourself, this message is for you: to listen is to equip yourself with the best resources available to serve the real Master, Christ the Lord. So begins the famous opening paragraph of Benedict’s Rule in Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s vital, new, contemporary…

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List price: $15.99
Publisher: Paraclete Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 130
Size: 5.37" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (M.Div., Duke Divinity School) is director of the School for Conversion in Durham, North Carolina, where he is a member of the Rutba House new monastic community. He is the author of To Baghdad and Beyond and coauthor of Inhabiting the Church: Biblical Wisdom for a New Monasticism. He is also the coeditor of School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism. Catch up with him at newmonasticism.org.