Tools for Peace: The Spiritual Craft of St. Benedict and Rený Girard - Couverture souple

Marr, Robert

 
9780595412457: Tools for Peace: The Spiritual Craft of St. Benedict and Rený Girard
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595412459 ISBN 13 : 9780595412457
Editeur : iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

A sixth-century abbot who wrote a practical rule for his community and a twentieth-century thinker who has roamed through literature, cultural anthropology, and religious thought-what would these two men have in common to generate a conversation between them? The religious study Tools for Peace: The Spiritual Craft of St. Benedict and René Girard combines their insights on how to understand and overcome violence in the world today.In his Rule for monks, St. Benedict explored ways that people can live in peace with one another and with God. René Girard probed human experience to seek the roots of violence that tears human communities apart and separates people from God. A dialogue between this abbot and this modern thinker across fifteen centuries deepens the insights of both into the causes and cures of human violence and gives us the tools to apply their ideas in our troubled world.For both St. Benedict and Girard, peace is rooted in God. Anyone who yearns for harmony in the midst of the violence that surrounds us today can learn much from Tools for Peace, essentially joining in a conversation between two people who share a desire for the serenity of God for all times.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A sixth-century abbot who wrote a practical rule for his community and a twentieth-century thinker who has roamed through literature, cultural anthropology, and religious thought-what would these two men have in common to generate a conversation between them? The religious study Tools for Peace: The Spiritual Craft of St. Benedict and René Girard combines their insights on how to understand and overcome violence in the world today.In his Rule for monks, St. Benedict explored ways that people can live in peace with one another and with God. René Girard probed human experience to seek the roots of violence that tears human communities apart and separates people from God. A dialogue between this abbot and this modern thinker across fifteen centuries deepens the insights of both into the causes and cures of human violence and gives us the tools to apply their ideas in our troubled world.For both St. Benedict and Girard, peace is rooted in God. Anyone who yearns for harmony in the midst of the violence that surrounds us today can learn much from Tools for Peace, essentially joining in a conversation between two people who share a desire for the serenity of God for all times.

Biographie de l'auteur

Andrew Marr is a monk of St. Gregory?s Abbey in Three Rivers, Michigan, a Benedictine monastery in the Episcopal Church. He has also written Born in the Darkest Time of Year: Stories for the Season of the Christ Child.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595412459
ISBN 13 
9780595412457
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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