Reclaiming Humility: Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition Volume 255

by Jane Foulcher

Does humility have a place in contemporary life? Were Enlightenment thinkers wrong to reject humility as a "monkish virtue" (Hume) arising from a "slave morality" (Nietzsche)? Australian theologian Jane Foulcher recovers the counter-cultural reading of humility that marked early Christianity and examines its trajectory at key junctures in the development of Western monasticism. Humility emerges not as a moral virtue achieved by human effort but as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879072555
• ISBN13: 9780879072551
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"