Reading to live : the evolving practice of Lectio divina /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Trappist, Ky. : Collegeville, Minn. :
Cistercian Publications ; Liturgical Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Cistercian studies series ;
no. 231. |
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Table of Contents:
- The problem of spiritual illiteracy. Various approaches to reading
- Digital text
- The printed book
- Scholastic text
- The monastic book
- A method of retrieval
- The art of Lectio divina : beginning of a Christian spiritual practice. Judaism and religious reading
- Beginning of a Christian approach to reading
- Origen, the master reader
- The spread of a Christian practice. Women scholar-readers
- Augustine, reading, and the self
- The evolution and regularization of a practice. The desert tradition
- Early eastern cenobitic forms of monasticism
- Cassian and western monasticism
- Rule of Benedict, rule of the master, and reading
- The ups and downs of a practice. Eleventh- and twelfth-century reform
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Hugh of St. Victor and the Didascalicon
- Guigo II and The ladder of monks
- The eclipse of Lectio
- The revival of a practice. Toward a revival of Bible reading
- The revival of Lectio divina
- The phenomenology of reading and Lectio divina
- Social science, psychology, and Lectio divina
- Theological perspectives, narrative, and Lectio divina
- Learning Lectio divina today
- Lectio as actualizing the Word
- Lectio as group activity
- Conclusion: Lectio : the once and future practice.