An edition of Prayer and thought in monastic tradition
(2014)
Prayer and thought in monastic tradition
essays in honour of Benedicta Ward SLG
First [edition].
by Benedicta Ward and Santha Bhattacharji
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A chronological picture of the development of monastic thought and prayer from the early English Church (Bede, Adomnan) through to the 17th century and William Law's religious community at King's Cliffe. Essays interact with different facets of monastic life, assessing the development and contribution of figures such as Boniface, the Venerable Bede, Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux.
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Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Benedicta Ward SLG
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Table of Contents
Rethinking the history of monasticism East and West : a modest tour d'horizon -- Columba Stewart, OSB
Not by bread alone : St Brendan meets Paul, the Irish spiritual hermit (Navigatio Sancti Brendani, chapter xxvi) -- Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Theology and the paschal controversy : Bede's case against the British church -- Rowan Williams
Bede's view of the place of the Eucharist in Anglo-Saxon life : the evidence of the Historia Ecclestica gentis Anglorum -- Thomas O'Loughlin
Women, prayer and preaching in the early English church -- Sarah Foot
Praying the psalter in Carolingian times : what was supposed to be going on in the minds of monks? -- Henry Mayr-Harting
'The brother who may wish to pray by himself' : sense of self in Carolingian prayers of private devotion -- Renie Choy
St Boniface, monk and missioner -- Henry Wansbrough, OSB
Turning the world upside-down : St Peter Damian's theology of the spiritual life -- Gordon Mursell
John of Fécamp and Anselm of Bec : a new language of prayer -- Brian Patrick McGuire
'Minds wandering' and 'monastic stability' in the early monastic letters of Anselm of Bec -- G.R. Evans -- 'Between dialectic and the sacred Scipture : Anselm of Canterbury and the Bible' / -- Giles E.M. Gasper
Miracles and the crusading mind : monastic meditations on Jerusalem's conquest -- Jay Rubenstein
Reading saints lives, in the light of miracle stories in John of Forde's Life of of Wulfric of Haselbury -- Pauline Matarasso
The eye of reason, the eye of love : 'divine learning and affective prayer' in the thought of William of Saint Thierrry -- E. Rozanne Elder
Concerning academic translation and the Latin of Conrad of Eberbach -- Paul Savage
'Desire for the eternal country' : the laity and the wider world of monastic prayer in medieval England -- Brian Golding
Universities : friend or foe? -- Alexander Murray
Late medieval mysticism : visionary writing as a mode of thought -- Santha Bhattacharji
John Wesley and William Law : the founding of two contrasting religious communities in the eighteenth century -- Ralph Waller
The beloved : the messianic figure of the Song of Songs -- Edmée Kingsmill, SLG
Benedicta Ward, SLG, in a few words : nun, scholar, teacher -- Dominic Mattos.
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