Title: Steps in a Large Room: Quaker Explores the Monastic Tradition (Swarthmore Lecture 1985)
Publisher: Quaker Books
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0852451881
ISBN 13: 9780852451885
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good

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Christopher Holdsworth's own experience led him to become interested in the monastic tradition, and to spend much of his life in learning more about it as a mediaeval historian. In this book he presents aspects of that tradition which may be useful for Quakers. Starting from outward things, like stability, humility, obedience and the regular attendance at public worship, the author moves towards other sides of what the tradition calls the exploration of the heart, which he calls inner space: namely attentive reading of the Bible, and prayer. 'We, like Benedict's monks, need to let the whole of ourselves be irradiated with the Spirit, so that, in George Fox's memorable phrase, our lives preach.'

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