A Benedictine Education - 314

A Benedictine Education presents two essays by John Henry Newman, “The Mission of Saint Benedict” and “The Benedictine Schools,” which together articulate Saint Benedict’s vision of a schola servitii dominici, “a school of the Lord’s service.” As Christopher Fisher notes in his Preface, this volume aims to aid in the recovery of the Benedictine principle, a principle animated by a poetic disposition—the capacity to comprehensively and lovingly engage with reality. The Portsmouth Institute, at which Fisher serves as Executive Director, works to develop this disposition and thus provide leaven for a Christian culture. In her Introduction, Margarita A. Mooney bears this point out, emphasizing the eminently practical dimension of the Benedictine principle in its power to purify present-day educational systems. Concluding the volume is an Interpretive Essay by Abbot Thomas Frerking, O.S.B. The graceful and graced fruit of a life of contemplation, Abbot Thomas’s words testify to the sublime truth at the heart of Christianity of which the Benedictine charism gives evidence: that the gift of wisdom comes not from literacy or learning, but from love.
ASIN: 1952826195
VSKU: BVV.1952826195.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Newman, John Henry|Fisher, Christopher|Mooney, Margarita A.|Frerking O.S.B., Thomas
Binding: Paperback