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While it’s true that traditional monasticism is declining in many historic Christian traditions, new monasticism—the contemporary reappropriation of monastic wisdom—is still very much alive.
Christian Monks, St. Cyprian, St. Cassian, St. John, St. Paul and St. Vitalis, from the Saints Procession mosaic in the Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna ...
Jamie Kreiner thinks so. She’s a medieval historian and the author of a new book called The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction, which examines how early Christian ...
Christian monasticism dates back to about the late third century. It is difficult to ascribe its earliest form to any one person, but most historians agree it was a man by the name of Antony, born ...
Long before contemporary theologian John W. Cooper argued for “dualistic holism,” which holds to the compatibility of both views in the Bible, the monks intuited this biblical anthropology ...
In “The Wandering Mind,” Jamie Kreiner observes that the modern-day distraction epidemic has revived our interest in medieval monks, “those supposed paragons of concentration,” as masters ...
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Archaeologists Unearth Three Ancient Churches in Egypt That Reveal Coptic Graffiti Scribbled by Monks on the Walls - MSNAs monks' quarters and graffiti-laced walls are revealed beneath the desert sun, a long-forgotten chapter of Christian devotion is finding its ... (not modern-day scribbling but ancient ...
St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt. Sinai in the 6th century on the orders of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. Over time it became an important destination for Christian pilgrims.
Thanks to an association with the Hungarian Foreign Trade Bank, the monks were able to bring their 52 hectares of land back to fruition, combining their ancestral knowledge with modern methods to ...
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction Jamie Kreiner. Liveright, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-631-49805-3 ...
Though the Christian monks central to this book lived from A.D. 300 to 900, the problem they were wrangling with — distraction — feels surprisingly modern. Horse, by Geraldine Brooks.
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