Community and Abbot In The Rule of Saint Benedict: Volume 2: 5 (Cistercian Studies Series, 5) - Hardcover

De Vogue OSB, Adalbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879073055 ISBN 13: 9780879073053

Publisher: Liturgical Press, 1985

Synopsis

The abbot, the community, and obedience in the Rule of Saint Benedict as compared to its source, The Rule of the Master, to see Saint Benedict's originality.    

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Review

Historians of monasticism will read this translation, as they have long read the French original, for its close exegesis and textual analysis of the eighteen chapters of the Rule of Benedict directly dealing with the abbot's authority, along with the parallel passages in the Rule of the Master that influenced Benedict.Speculum

Synopsis

Provides a textual analysis of the eighteen chapters of of the "The Rule of Saint Benedict" dealing with the authority of the abbot.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879073055
• ISBN 13: 9780879073053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256