Saint Benedict and His Times

Author:   Ildephonse Schuster
Publisher:   Arouca Press
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9781989905463


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   19 February 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Despite the importance of St. Benedict of Nursia in the history of the Church and of the world, we know precious little about his life. He left no written documents except his great Rule, which has wisely guided countless God-seeking souls for a millennium and a half. In the absence of an Augustinian Confessions, Benedict's Rule supplies a self-effacing but unmistakable biography, for the Patriarch could not have lived otherwise than as he taught. Ildefonso Schuster, one of the outstanding ecclesiastical scholars of the twentieth century, has fitted St. Benedict into the times in which he lived, using the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great as his point of departure. With an immense fund of knowledge at his disposal-historical, juridical, liturgical, archaeological, and literary-the author is able to invest the rather sketchy outline of St. Benedict with flesh and bones. No other biography of the Patriarch of Western Monasticism has ever come close to matching Schuster's in breadth of vision or richness of scholarship.

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Author:   Ildephonse Schuster
Publisher:   Arouca Press
Imprint:   Arouca Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9781989905463


ISBN 10:   1989905463
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   19 February 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION (1951) Cardinal Schuster's wide knowledge of the history of early canon and civil law, of the liturgy and of Italian ecclesiastical history between St Benedict and St Gregory, gives its principal interest to the book, in its interpretation both of the Rule and of the Second Book of St Gregory's Dialogues.... The great strength and charm of the book will be found in its monastic spirit, and in the profound pietas which it breathes towards St Benedict and towards Monte Cassino. -Aelred Sillem, OSB The best modern life of St Benedict is the beautiful book of Cardinal Schuster, OSB-a book full of true Benedictine spirit and monastic charm. -Thomas Merton, OCSO To the ordinary reader, this life of St Benedict is a welcome book, for he will see how the minute study of contemporary history and sixth-century canonical procedure can, if carefully managed, increase his knowledge of the period and so help to explain much that might appear obscure in the Rule and the Dialogues. -Basil Hume, OSB


"PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION (1951) ""Cardinal Schuster's wide knowledge of the history of early canon and civil law, of the liturgy and of Italian ecclesiastical history between St Benedict and St Gregory, gives its principal interest to the book, in its interpretation both of the Rule and of the Second Book of St Gregory's Dialogues.... The great strength and charm of the book will be found in its monastic spirit, and in the profound pietas which it breathes towards St Benedict and towards Monte Cassino."" -Aelred Sillem, OSB ""The best modern life of St Benedict is the beautiful book of Cardinal Schuster, OSB-a book full of true Benedictine spirit and monastic charm."" -Thomas Merton, OCSO ""To the ordinary reader, this life of St Benedict is a welcome book, for he will see how the minute study of contemporary history and sixth-century canonical procedure can, if carefully managed, increase his knowledge of the period and so help to explain much that might appear obscure in the Rule and the Dialogues."" -Basil Hume, OSB"


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