Community and Abbot in the Rule of Saint Benedict - Volume 1

The abbot, the community, and obedience in the Rule of Saint Benedict as compared to its source, The Rule of the Master, to see Saint Benedict's originality. 'Historians of monasticism will read this translation, as they have long read the French original, for its close exegesis and textual analysis of the eighteen chapters of the RB directly dealing with the abbot's authority, along with the parallel passages in the RM that influenced Benedict' -Speculum.

About the author

Adalbert de Vogüé was born in 1924 and became a monk of Pierre-qui-Vire in 1944. He taught patristics and early monasticism at Sant'Anselmo in Rome. From 1974-2011 he lived as a hermit near his monastery. His six-volume work on the Rule of St. Benedict is considered to be the definitive work on the Rule. He was regarded as the authority on the Rule of Benedict and the Rules of western monasticism. In recent years he published twelve volumes on the history of western monasticism.

Product details

• Authors: Adalbert de Vogue
• Publisher: Cistercian Publications c/o Liturgical Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1978
• EAN: 9780879078058
• ISBN: 978-0-87907-805-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 377 g
• Series: Cistercian Studies (Paperback); Cistercian Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works