1st Edition

The Monastic Footprint in Post-Reformation Movements The Cloister of the Soul

By Kenneth C. Carveley Copyright 2022
330 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the influence of the monastic tradition beyond the Reformation. Where the built monastic environment had been dissolved, desire for the spiritual benefits of monastic living still echoed within theological and spiritual writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a virtual exegetical template. The volume considers how the writings of monastic authors were... Read more

Foreword

1 The monastic impulse

2 Pietism and the interior monastery

3 Anthony Horneck : The Happy Ascetick (1681 & editions) an analytical reading

4 Luke de Beaulieu: Claustrum Animae, the Cloister of the Soul, or the Reformed Monastery

5 Monks and Methodists

6 The Monastic imprint: refining the soul

Bibliography

Appendix I: John Wesley Christian Library and Macarius

Appendix II: Anthony Horneck: The Happy Ascetick

Biography

Kenneth C. Carveley is a church historian and liturgical scholar. His fields of study include Byzantine and Orthodox history and theology, medieval and early modern ecclesiology, and his own Methodist tradition. For many years he has been engaged in ecumenical dialogue, working with the Anglican and Methodist churches on liturgical writing and revision. His work on monasticism and the Cistercian tradition has been informed by research and teaching in universities and at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.