Benedict Backwards: Reading the Rule in the Twenty-First Century BISAC-POL011010 ISBN13: 9780486468983

ISBN13: 9780486468983

he is suspicious of the girl

gentle farmer

Set in the Russian capital during the Revolution of 1905

Now In Book Three

Benedict Backwards: Reading the Rule in the Twenty-First Century BISAC-POL011010 ISBN13: 9780486468983In 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