Book of Donmon Teith

The Catholic ideal is the ascetic life. The true monk is the perfect Christian. "This", says Thomas a Kempis "is the highest wisdom, by contempt of the world to

Excerpt from The Spirit and Origin of Christian Monasticism These two facts - that my subject has occupied English scholars very little and Continental scholars

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Excerpt from The Monks Before Christ: Their Spirit and Their History If there is a book in the world which accomplishes just what has been attempted in the foll