The Way of Simplicity: The Cistercian Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality) - Softcover

De Waal, Esther

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570751951 ISBN 13: 9781570751950

Publisher: Orbis Books, 1998

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Review:

Esther de Waal has gifted us with new and fresh insights into Benedictine spirituality from the Cistercian perspective. She gently and prayerfully explores the Cistercian charism by weaving the strands of her study and reading of the twelfth-century Cistercian mystics with her prayerful reflection on Benedictine values. The American Benedictine Review

This is an engaging amalgam of architecture, history, biography, and monastic theology, capped with a charming anthology from Cistercian authors, ancient and modern.Irish Theological Quarterly

About the Author:

Esther de Waal is one of today's most celebrated spiritual writers. Seeking God, her classic book on the relevance of the Rule of Saint Benedict, has opened up the riches of the monastic tradition to readers throughout the world for almost twenty-five years. Greatly in demand as a speaker and retreat leader, she lives in Herefordshire, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1570751951
• ISBN 13: 9781570751950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 173