The Brotherhood of the Common Life and Its Influence

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The Brotherhood of the Common Life and Its Influence

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Ross Fuller - Author

SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions

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Hardcover - 353 pages

Release Date: March 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2243-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2243-4

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 353 pages

Release Date: March 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2244-5
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2244-1

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Summary

"This book uncovers a missing link in the historical transition from Catholic spirituality to Protestantism and, in so doing, portrays a form of Christian interiority that has strong implications for today's spiritual seeker. A magisterial work--bold, sensitive, and yet, modest." -- Jacob Needleman

This book presents a lost tradition of inner work, the way of the householder, which was believed by the Brotherhood of Common Life to have been the teaching of the Apostles. It focuses on the emergence, amidst the decay of medieval culture, of "the mixed life," this reconciliation of action and contemplation, as the essential link between Catholic spirituality and Protestantism. The transmission of this work to lay persons seeking the interior dimensions of their lives without withdrawing from the world is presented.

The hitherto monastic spiritual exercises for strengthening attention are discussed in depth. The traditional and vital Christian knowledge of the human condition, which the Brothers and Sisters verified for themselves, is emphasized, especially the crucial significance of the force of attention in the recollection of oneself and God. The importance of strengthening attentive awareness is everywhere alluded to in the sources, but virtually ignored in current accounts of the Christian heritage.

The book traces a transmission of spiritual exercises supported by a strong psychological base that is strangely familiar to the climate of today's search for meaning.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

A Personal Preface

Introduction

1. The Three Lives

2. Revaluations

3. The Search for the True Image

4. The New Devotion

5. The Mixed Life

6. The City of the Moon

7. The Daily Work

8. The Ordering of Daily Life in England

9. The Place of the Monastery

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

Christianity
Esotericism and Gnosticism
Mysticism
Religion
Spirituality

21854/23148(WDE//)

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