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"Does humility have a place in contemporary life? Were Enlightenment thinkers wrong to reject humility as a ""monkish virtue"" (Hume) arising from a ""slave morality"" (Nietzsche)? Australian theologian Jane Foulcher recovers the counter-cultural reading of humility that marked early Christianity and examines its trajectory at key junctures in the development of Western monasticism. Humility emerges not as a moral virtue achieved by human effort but as a way opened by grace-as a divine ""climate"" (Christian de Cherge) that we are invited to inhabit. From fourth-century Egypt to twentieth-century Algeria, via Saint Benedict and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Dr. Foulcher's compelling analysis of theology and practice challenges the church to reclaim Christian humility as essential to its life and witness today."

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This wonderfully clear and insightful introduction to so central a topic will be of immense help to students and scholars. At a moment when the spiritual formation of Christian theology is emerging once more as central to our understanding of Christianity, Reclaiming Humility provides a deeply thoughtful and well-researched consideration of this difficult, indispensable, sometimes dangerously misused, life-generating virtue. Mark A. McIntosh, Professor of Christian Spirituality, Loyola University, Author of Divine Teaching: An Introduction to Christian Theology

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Jane Foulcher is an Anglican priest on the theology faculty of Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia.

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