Benedict Backwards: Reading the Rule in the Twenty-First Century BISAC-POL011010 gentle farmer

gentle farmer

ISBN10: 015206107X

and no one was going to take it away from me

ISBN13: 9780486468983

but as the weeks roll by

Benedict Backwards: Reading the Rule in the Twenty-First Century BISAC-POL011010 gentle farmerIn Benedict Backwards, Terrence Kardong builds the case that the Rule of Benedict is best read "backwards," that is, with emphasis on the last chapters, not the first ones. Benedict starts out dependent on the Rule of the Master, but he ends on a much more self assured note, revealing more about his own thoughts on matters of monastic life. Kardong shows the final chapters of the Rule are primarily about community, and they provide insight into