Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition Essays in Honour of Benedicta Ward SLG

by Bhattacharji, Santha; Mattos, Dominic; Williams, Rowan

• ISBN13: 9780567665713
• ISBN10: 0567665712
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-10-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Author Biography

Santha Bhattacharji is Senior Tutor at St Benet's Hall, and a member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK.

Rowan Williams (Baron Williams of Oystermouth) is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. He was formerly Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, UK, and was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 - 2012.

Dominic Mattos is a publisher and writer, and studied Theology at the University of Oxford, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction - Santha Bhattacharji
1. Re-thinking the History of Monasticism East and West: A Modest tour d'horizon - Columba Stewart, O.S.B.
2. Not by Bread Alone: St Brendan meets Paul, the Irish Spiritual Hermit - Eamonn O'Carragain
3. Theology and the Paschal Controversy: Bede's Case Against the British Church - Rowan Williams
4. Bede's view of the place of the Eucharist in Anglo-Saxon Life: the evidence of the Histroia ecclesiasticus gentis Anglorum - Thomas O'Loughlin
5. Women, Prayer and Preaching in the Early English Church - Sarah Foot
6. What Was Supposed to be Going on in the Minds of Monks When they Prayed the Psalter in Carolingian times? - Henry Mayr-Harting
7. 'The brother who may wish to pray by himself': Sense of Self in Carolingian Prayers of Private Devotion - Renie Choy
8. St Boniface Monk and Missioner - Henry Wansbrough O.S.B.
9. Turning the World Upside-Down: St Peter Damian's Theology of the Spiritual Life - Gordon Mursell
10. John of Fécamp and Anselm of Bec: A New Language of Prayer - Brian McGuire
11. 'Minds Wandering' and 'Monastic stability' in the Early Monastic Letters of Anselm of Bec - G.R. Evans
12. Between Dialectic and the Sacred Scripture: Anselm of Canterbury and the Bible - Giles Gasper
13. Miracles and the Crusading Mind: Monastic Meditations on Jerusalem's Conquest - Jay Rubenstein
14. Reading Saints' Lives in the Light of John of Forde's Life of Wulfric of Haselbury - Pauline Matarasso
15. The Eye of Reason – The Eye of Love: 'Divine Learning and Affective Prayer' in the thought of William of St Thierry - E Rozanne Elder
16. Concerning Academic Translation and the Latin of Conrad of Eberbach - Paul Savage
17. 'Desire for the Eternal Country': the Laity and the Wider World of Monastic Prayer in Medieval England - Brian Golding
18. Universities: Friend or Foe? - Alexander Murray
19. Late Medieval Mysticism: visionary writing as a mode of thought - Santha Bhattacharji
20. John Wesley and William Law: the founding of two contrasting religious communities in the Eighteenth Century - Ralph Waller
21. The Beloved: the Messianic Figure in the Song of Songs - Sister Edmée S.L.G.
22. Sr Benedicta Ward in a few words: Nun, Scholar, Teacher - Dominic Mattos

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