Reading to live: the evolving practice of Lectio divina
The problem of spiritual illiteracy -- Various approaches to reading -- Digital text -- The printed book -- Scholastic text -- The monastic book -- A method of retrieval -- The art of Lectio divina : beginning of a Christian spiritual practice -- Judaism and religious reading -- Beginning of a Chris...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Collegeville, Minn.
Cistercian Publications [u.a.]
2009
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Cistercian studies series (231)
Year: 2009 |
| Series/Journal: | Cistercian studies series
231 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Spiritual reading
/ History
B Bible reading / Spirituality / History |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible
Reading
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| Summary: | The problem of spiritual illiteracy -- Various approaches to reading -- Digital text -- The printed book -- Scholastic text -- The monastic book -- A method of retrieval -- The art of Lectio divina : beginning of a Christian spiritual practice -- Judaism and religious reading -- Beginning of a Christian approach to reading -- Origen, the master reader -- The spread of a Christian practice -- Women scholar-readers -- Augustine, reading, and the self -- The evolution and regularization of a practice -- The desert tradition -- Early eastern cenobitic forms of monasticism -- Cassian and western monasticism -- Rule of Benedict, rule of the master, and reading -- The ups and downs of a practice -- Eleventh and twelfth century reform -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- Hugh of St. Victor and the Didascalicon -- Guigo II and the ladder of monks -- The eclipse of Lectio -- The revival of a practice -- Toward a revival of Bible reading -- The revival of Lectio divina -- The phenomenology of reading and Lectio divina -- Social science, psychology, and Lectio divina -- Theological perspectives, narrative, and Lectio divina -- Learning Lectio divina today -- Lectio as actualizing the Word -- Lectio as group activity -- Conclusion: Lectio : the once and future practice |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 265 S. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87907-231-5 |
