Forming "Mediators and Instruments of Grace": The Emerging Role of Monastics in Teaching Contemplative Ambiguity and Practice to the Laity
Drawing from long-term ethnographic research with a global network of contemplative Christians, this paper discusses an emerging teaching role for North American monasteries as the numbers of avowed religious decline. Since the Trappist community of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2019]
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Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 7, Pages: 1-11 |
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Monasticism
B Spiritual Formation B Religious Pluralism B Centering Prayer B religious ambiguity B lay contemplatives B contemplative Christianity |
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