Overview

Followers of the way of Jesus Christ through two millennia have engaged in the joyful yet life 'costing struggle of responding to the challenge of being transformed into his likeness. This further volume of Carthusian Novice Conferences offers the father 'master's words of instruction on poverty to the men who have been drawn to the Carthusian form of the Christian way. As with al of us, 'poverty' operates on many levels, and one of the most remarkable qualities of these talks is that they range over the economic history as well as the more traditionally spiritual teaching of the Carthusian Order in its own struggle to seek Christ in simplicity and silence. Like al Christians, the Carthusians find Jesus the great Exemplar of the poverty that is desirable and yet 'costs not less than everything'; and once again we are reminded, with characteristic directness, of the source and fount of the desirable poverty - the total mutual self-giving of the Persons of the Holy Trinity.

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Author:   A Carthusian ,  An Anglican Solitary ,  A Carthusian
Publisher:   Liturgical Press
Imprint:   Liturgical Press
Volume:   184
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780879077846

ISBN 10:   0879077840
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   01 June 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements   vii    1  The Poor in the Old Testament   1    2  A People Poor and Humble   6    3  The Spirituality of the Poor   11    4  The Messiah of the Poor   19    5  The Prayer of the Poor   30    6  Who Are You?   53    7  And I, Who Am I?   66    8  Mary and Her Song of Poverty   73    9  The Poor in the New Testament   76  10  St Paul and Poverty   84  11  The Rich   88  12  The Poor Christ   96  13  Poverty and Sharing   103  14  Evangelical Poverty in Primitive Monasticism   113  15  Some Texts on Poverty in Primitive Monasticism   124  16  Evangelical Poverty through the Centuries   134  17  The first Carthusians and Poverty   143          Map of the Desert of Chartreuse   155  18  Carthusian Poverty through the Centuries   156

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These precious volumes offer an illuminating, even dazzling, insight into Carthusian ways that are little known, indeed traditionally hidden. Here are men who for all their silence need to be heard.The Tablet

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