Reclaiming Humility

Name: Reclaiming Humility | Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition
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Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition

Jane Foulcher(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 31. März 2015

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Intro
Titlepage
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Why Humility?
Chapter 1: Virtue or Vice? Humility among the Virtues
1.1 The Lost Virtue? Humility in the Modern World
1.2 Humility and Virtue in the Greco-Roman World
1.2.1 Aristotle, Eudaimonia, and Megalopsychos
1.2.2 Humility as a Condition of the Socially Inferior
1.3 Humility in the Judeo-Christian World
1.4 Humility among the Virtues
1.5 The Return of the Virtues
1.6 A New Monastic Turn?
1.7 Conclusion
Chapter 2: Humility and the Self: Desert Monasticism
2.1 The Literature of Early Desert Monasticism
2.2 From the City to the Desert: Locating the Self in the World
2.2.1 The Desert: A Place of Humility
2.2.2 Abba Arsenius: The Downward Journey of the Desert
2.3 Between Heaven and Earth: Locating the Self in Eternity
2.3.1 Anthony and the Open Heavens
2.3.2 Judgment and Humility
2.4 Habits of the Desert: The Practice of Humility
2.5 Turning the Other Cheek: The Humiliated Self
2.6 Conclusion
Interlude: From the Desert to the Cloister
Chapter 3: Humility and Community: The Rule of Saint Benedict
3.1 The Rule of Saint Benedict in Context
3.2 Communal Eschatology: "All Together to Everlasting Life" (RB 72.12)
3.2.1 From a School of Suffering to a School of Love: Prologue 45-50
3.2.2 Together, with Ardent Love: RB 72
3.3 The Ladder of Humility
3.3.1 RB 7 and Its Pedigree: Cassian, the Master, and Benedict
3.3.2 The Ladder of Humility: Metaphor and Theology
3.3.3 The Ladder of Humility in Community
3.4 Practicing Humility in the Monastic Workshop
3.5 The Monastic Polis: A Place of Humility
3.6 The Yoke of Service: Humble Love and the Monastery Kitchen
3.7 The Bread of Obedience: The Difficult Heart of Humility
3.8 The Raven at the Table: Benedict Practices Humility
3.9 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Humility and Public Life: Bernard of Clairvaux
4.1 The Problem with Bernard
4.1.1 Life and Work
4.1.2 Character and Cult
4.1.3 Writing and Rhetoric
4.2 Bernard and Humility: On the Steps of Humility and Pride
4.2.1 The Fall from Humility: A Phenomenology of Pride
4.2.2 Humility and Truth
4.2.3 The Birth of Compassion: Humility and Love
4.2.4 Two Types of Humility: Cold and Warm
4.2.5 The Humility of God
4.2.6 Assenting to Grace: The Practice of Obedience and the Conversion of the Will
4.3 Bernard and the World
4.3.1 The Virtuous Christian Community
4.3.2 Contemplation and Action
4.4 Humility and Public Life: On the Conduct and Office of Bishops
4.4.1 Monastic Virtues for Public Life: Chastity, Charity, Humility
4.4.2 Pride: An Interior View
4.4.3 Pride: An Exterior View
4.4.4 Obedience and Public Life
4.5 Practicing Humility in Public Life: The Life of Saint Malachy
4.6 Bernard the Juggler: Humility and Failure
4.7 Bernard and the Florentine Republic
4.8 Conclusion
Chapter 5: Humility and the Other: Christian de Chergé and the Monks of Tibhirine
5.1 Christian de Chergé: A Vocation to Algeria
5.1.1 Childhood and Education
5.1.2 Algeria: Formative Encounters
5.1.3 Ordination and Monastic Vocation
5.2 The Cistercians in Algeria
5.3 Tibhirine: An Emerging Vocation
5.4 Bribes d'humilité: "Scraps of Humility"
5.4.1 Humility: A Divine Climat
5.4.2 Humility and Obedience
5.5 The Eschatological Horizon: Hope and Humility
5.5.1 "I Place Death before My Eyes"
5.5.2 Pilgrims of the Horizon
5.5.3 Reimagining Benedict's Ladder: The Chapter Talks
5.5.4 The Mystical Ladder of Dialogue: The Journées Romaines Lecture
5.6 L'AUTRE que nous attendons: "The OTHER for Whom We Wait"
5.6.1 Space for "the Other"
5.7 Practicing Humility in "the School of the Other"
5.7.1 Hospitality and the Monastery Wall
5.7.2 Monasticism and Islam
5.7.3 La "grisaille" du quotidian: Ordinary Time
5.7.4 Ora et Labora
5.7.5 Work: The Monastery Garden
5.7.6 Prayer: The Daily Office
5.7.7 Priants parmi d'autre priants
5.8 Martyrdom: The End of Humility?
5.8.1 Loving to the End
5.8.2 Humility and the Hostile Other
5.9 Conclusion
Conclusion: Reclaiming Humility for the Twenty-First Century
Reclaiming the Way of Humility
Reclaiming an Eschatological Orientation
Reclaiming the Material Face of Humility
Reintegrating Humility and Humiliation
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