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Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and the Confessions of St. Augustine
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Monasticism The Christian creeds, different as they may be from one another, unite in demanding that faith must exhibit itself in a Christclike Jiei that, in fact, Christianity only comes by its own where it issues in a characteristic life. A genuinely Christian life is the common ideal of Christendom. But what is the nature of that life to be ? Here the ways part. The diversity of creeds among us is, in the last analysis, as much due to the difference of beliefs as to that of the ideals of life engendered by the belief. All other distinctions, in a religious sense, are unessential, or derive from hence their importance and their meaning. It is not only theological wrangling, nor priestly lust of power, nor national diversities, to which schism in the Church is duethey have had their share, it is true, in originating it, and still help to maintain it; but what has really divided the Church, and given permanence to that division, is the variety of answers to the question,What is the ideal of life ? It is with the relations of groups not otherwise than with those of individuals. Not theoretic opinions, but feelings and aims, sunder and unite. If we ask either the Roman or the Greek Church wherein the most perfect Christian life consists, both alike reply: in the service of God, to the abnegation of all the good things of this life property, marriage, personal will, and honour; in a word, in the religious renunciation of the world, that is, in Monasticism. The true monk is thetrue. .and most perfect Christian. Monasticism, then, is not in the Catholic Churches a more or less accidental phenomenon alongside of others;but, as the Churches are to-day, and as they have for centuries understood the Gospel, it is an institution based on their essential nature; it is the Christia...
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Pages 172
Dimensions: Length: 8.12" Width: 5.08" Height: 0.39"
Weight: 0.41 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Publisher Wipf & Stock Publishers
ISBN 1592445926
EAN 9781592445929
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