Desiring Life: Benedict on Wisdom and the Good Life

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ISBN: 9781561011827

By: Norvene Vest

Cowley Publications / 2000 / Paperback

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Desiring Life is the third book in Norvene Vest's series on Benedictine spirituality for people living in the world today. This book addresses issues of relationship, particulary our relationship to the world (wisdom); to ourselves (virtue); and to each other (ethics). Vest translates insights from the Rule of St. Benedict and other early monastic writers into the common language we share today. Vest asks questions of pressing concern today, such as: What is the "good life" we seek? How can we learn to live with integrity and compassion, despite the growing gap between public ethics and narrow self-interest? What sort of people should be as Christians try to be? Through the recovery of insights from the past, Vest believes, we can draw closer to the heart of our desire for life in all its fullness--union with God.

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Title: Desiring Life: Benedict on Wisdom and the Good Life
By: Norvene Vest
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 173
Vendor: Cowley Publications

Publication Date: 2000
Weight: 9 ounces
ISBN: 1561011827
ISBN-13: 9781561011827
Stock No: WW011827

Publisher's Description

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In Desiring Life, Norvene Vest brings the insights of Benedict s Rule to the wisdom tradition. Desiring Life is the third book in her series on Benedictine spirituality for people living in the world today. Vest asks questions of pressing concern today, such as: What is the good life we seek? How can we learn to live with integrity and compassion, despite the growing gap between public ethics and narrow self-interest? How can we live fully and well? What sort of people should we as Christians try to be? In sections on wisdom, virtue, and ethics Vest describes these contemporary questions and addresses them through passages from Benedict s Rule. Through the recovery of insights from the past, Vest believes, we can draw closer to the heart of our desire for life in all its fullness union with God.

Author Bio

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NORVENE VEST leads workshops and retreats on Benedictine spirituality throughout the United States and Britain. She is an oblate of a Benedictine abbey in Valyermo, California, and the author of Preferring Christ, No Moment Too Small, and Friend of the Soul. For more information, please see her website www.composury.com.

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Vest finds within the Benedictine tradition a healthy appreciation for desiring; she sees it as a key to unlocking the Divine dimension of modern life....How refreshing it is to read someone who is convinced about the nobility of virtue. Vest defines it as 'the capacity to live and act in accord with our deep human desire for wholeness.' -- Spirituality and Health

How refreshing it is to read someone who is convinced about the nobility of virtue. Vest defines it as ‘the capacity to live and act in accord with our deep human desire for wholeness.’ -- Cultural Information Service

Vest presents our relationship to the world, to ourselves, and to each other in such a manner that in reading her words, one recognizes the ever-embracing love of God at the heart of such relationships. For anyone who desires a deeper experience of life, whether you are a seasoned follower of Benedict or a person turning to him for the first time, this book is an ideal companion for your journey. -- Spiritual Book News

. . . the value here lies not in the dazzling brilliance of the presenter’s thoughts, but in the structure and space they provide for meditation on one’s own life: this is a book to be used, not merely read. -- The Anglican Theological Review