A Not-So-Unexciting Life

Contents
 
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
   Carmel Posa, SGS
Chapter 1 Michael: A Short Biography
   David Tomlins, OCSO
Chapter 2 Benedict’s Balanced Lifestyle: Is This Your Life?
   Helen Lombard, SGS
Chapter 3 The Exciting Life of Being a Questioner
   Manuela Scheiba, OSB
Chapter 4 Welcoming the Word—Then and Now
   David Barry, OSB
Chapter 5 Ritualizing Endings for the Sake of New Beginnings
   Mary Collins, OSB
Chapter 6 Benedict and Francis: Two Popes and Two Saints in Conversation
   Brendan Thomas, OSB
Chapter 7 Magistra Humilitas: Young Bernard’s Hardest Lesson
   Elias Dietz, OCSO
Chapter 8 Bernard of Clairvaux and Richard of Saint-Victor on the Pursuit of Ecstasy and the Development of a Mystical Theology
   Constant J. Mews
Chapter 9 A Mirror for Abbots: The Pastoral Prayer of Saint Aelred
   Bernardo Bonowitz, OCSO
Chapter 10 Who Wrote the Rule of Walbert?
   Terrence Kardong, OSB
Chapter 11 Medieval English Nuns and the Benedictine Rule: The Evidence and Example of Wintney Priory
   Elizabeth Freeman
Chapter 12 Some Benedictine Legacies
   Austin Cooper, OMI
Chapter 13 Cloister and Community
   Katharine Massam
Chapter 14 Aequo animo: With a Quiet Mind
   Margaret Malone, SGS
Chapter 15 Monasticism in an Age of Transition: A European Perspective
   Bernhard A. Eckerstorfer, OSB
Chapter 16 Musings of a (Post)Modern Monastic Historian
   Columba Stewart, OSB
Chapter 17 Father Michael Casey, OCSO: A Teacher of Monks for our Time: An Interview
   Francisco Rafael de Pascual, OCSO
End Note: Michael Casey: A Poet of the Logos
   Bishop Graeme Rutherford
List of Contributors
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