Embracing Solitude: Women and New Monasticism
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1606083376 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the desert of fourth-century Africa to the woods of contemporary America, women's choice of solitude offers new landscapes of the sacred--in ordinary life, in new forms of community, and in exploring mystical processes of inner transformation. The lessons explored in this book from women spiritual entrepreneurs across the centuries will benefit contemporay New Monastics--both women and men. Just as Christian seekers moved from the city to the desert in the third century, now the move is back to finding contemplative solitude in the midst of the commerce of the city." --From the Foreword by June Boyce-Tillman, University of Winchester "Bernadette Flanagan opens up rich pathways of exploration and discovery into different practices of solitude, monasticism, and contemplation. The accounts will inspire, challenge, and guide those who follow in the footsteps of the renowned spiritual innovators profiled here. It answers many of their questions, places them in a historical context, and, most of all, encourages them on their pilgrimage into the heart of God through a my
Bernadette Flanagan is Director of Research at All Hallows College (Dublin City University). . She is the author of The Spirit of the City (1999) and coeditor of With Wisdom Seeking God (2008) and of Spiritual Capital (2012)
"Embracing Solitude" embraces you. Karen Karper Fredette Embracing Solitude is a book that will embrace you and send you down the path to more solitary moments with the certainty that it is quite normal to need "quiet time" at frequent intervals. Flanagan brings a wealth of learning to this slim volume, both the book kind and, more importantly, the experiential kind. She has been there; done that; knows whereof she speaks. . and I recommend it highly to anyone who seeks a solitude of I am a woman writer called to solitude for both spiritual and artistic reasons, a vocation which precludes the comforting structures of traditional monastic life (which I've tried without success to embrace). This is the most affirming, inspiring and illuminating book on solitude I've read recently, and I recommend it highly to anyone who seeks a solitude of heart wit. Really bad flow to the writing It is poorly edited - to the point that the number of typographical and grammatical errors are distracting. Also, the author has the habit of jumping to another topic, mid-paragraph. Really bad flow to the writing.
Just as Christian seekers moved from the city to the desert in the third century, now the move is back to finding contemplative solitude in the midst of the commerce of the city.''--From the Foreword by June Boyce-Tillman, University of Winchester''Bernadette Flanagan opens up rich pathways of exploration and discovery into different practices of solitude, monasticism, and contemplation. ''In this inspiring new work, Bernadette Flanagan seeks not merely to uncover forgotten stories of women's spirituality and prophetic voices, but to probe the reasons for tradition's lack of attention to transformative solitude, intentionally chosen. It answers many of their questions, places them in a historical context, and, most of all, encourages them on their pilgrimage into the heart of God through a mysticism embod