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The World Is Our Cloister

The World Is Our Cloister A Guide to the Modern Religious Life

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Publisher's Synopsis

This text is about the new religious life; a life to which all religions can relate. It is a guide to living the devotional life, not behind the walls of a monastery, but in the world. It's about engagement in the world as well as withdrawal, the balance between a life of action and one of contemplation.

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Christian Alternative

Throughout the two thousand years of Christian tradition there have been, and still are, groups and individuals that exist in the margins and upon the edge of faith. But in Christianity's contrapuntal history it has often been these outcasts and pioneers that have forged contemporary orthodoxy out of former radicalism as belief evolves to engage with and encompass the ever-changing social and scientific realities. Real faith lies not in the comfortable certainties of the Orthodox, but somewhere in a half-glimpsed hinterland on the dirt track to Emmaus, where the Death of God meets the Resurrection, where the supernatural Christ meets the historical Jesus, and where the revolution liberates both the oppressed and the oppressors.

Book information

ISBN: 9781846940491
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Imprint: Christian Alternative
Pub date:
DEWEY: 204.4
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 223
Weight: 258g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 20mm