A Good Neighbor: Benedict's Guide to Community
By: Robert Benson
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A Good Neighbor: Benedict's Guide to Community

By: Robert Benson
Paraclete Press / 2008 / Paperback
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Title: A Good Neighbor: Benedict's Guide to Community
By: Robert Benson
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 112
Vendor: Paraclete Press
Publication Date: 2008
Dimensions: 8.00 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 5 ounces
ISBN: 1557255822
ISBN-13: 9781557255822
Stock No: WW255822

Publisher's Description

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If you long for more meaningful connections to other people…

We've never needed this book more than we do right now. Most of us are involved with people all day long, every day, but rarely do we feel a part of real community in our lives.

In A Good Neighbour Robert Benson takes an intimate look at how others are defining, discovering, nurturing and sustaining life and love right where they are. Facing the confusing conflictions of modern life head on, Benson shows what it means to live in our neighborhoods, work at our jobs, be family, and friends, in ways that build places of relationship, love and mutual support.

Praise for Robert Benson:

"Robert Benson's writing reminds us of things we have half forgotten. It opens our eyes to things we have only half seen."
-Frederick Buechner

"Benson's writing is spare, simple, understated, always faintly humurous, and very forceful without seeming to be."
-Paula D'Arcy

Author Bio

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Robert Benson writes and speaks on living a more contemplative and prayerful life in a modern world, about the search for and the discovery of the sacred in the midst of our everyday lives. An alumnus of the Academy for Spiritual Formation, he is also a member of the Friends of Silence and of the Poor, an ecumenical order of lay people. Robert is the author of many books including In Constant Prayer and A Good Life: Benedict's Guide to Everyday Joy.

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We still thirst to know what goes on behind the walls of closed religious communities, even as vocations for those communities dwindle. Sweeney has written an account of his visits to a number of Cistercians and Benedictines, who gradually draw him closer to the experience of contemplation, to "be quiet, sit down, and listen." Benson, a member of an ecumenical lay order, asks us to consider the Rule of St. Benedict of Nursia—the founding document of the Benedictines—as an oblique guide to the more loosely knit modern communities we wish to build or of which we are a part. VERDICT Reaching well beyond Catholic readership, these will be valuable to the thoughtful reader, Christian and non-Christian. Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

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