Pillars of Community: Four Rules of Pre-Benedictine Monastic Life

by Terrence G. Kardong

Anyone who has explored a great Romanesque church has been impressed, even awed, by the mighty stone foundations supporting the great central tower. As four pillars give a firm base to these soaring structures, so four ancient Rules stand beneath the foundations of Western monasticism, giving a structure on which later spiritual architects, Benedict among them, would build. In this book Terrence Kardong explores the lives and Rules of four of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814633153
• ISBN13: 9780814633151
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"