... monastic values and traditions into everyday life. Many Emerging Evangelicals emphasize acts of remembering and practicing monasticism in their individual and congregational lives. As a form of lived religion, new monasticism is defined by its performance of everyday acts and the everyday exercise...

...This chapter focuses on The “New Monasticism” of Lotharingia, which propagated a dichotomous vision of the monastic world. It consists of a large group of ordinary monks, whose service to society was executed within the cloister's wall, as well as a small group of charismatic individuals capable...

... Merton, John Main, and Thomas Keating. It also attends to the varied expressions of Christian contemplative thought among contemporary thinkers and practitioners and movements, such as the new monasticism, to ask how and why it continues to thrive and develop in the contemporary period. Noteworthy here...

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...The New Monasticism is a movement among younger Evangelicals that is challenging the generation before them on three key fronts: the militaristic moralism of the religious right, the therapeutism of the megachurch, and the “placelessness” of the culture at large. Based on over two hundred hours...

...Combining vivid ethnographic storytelling and incisive theoretical analysis, New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism introduces readers to the fascinating and unexplored terrain of neo-monastic evangelicalism. From 2006 to 2011, the author of New...

...The chapter provides a description and analysis of the contemporary phenomenon known as ‘new monasticism’. It examines key figures whose work influenced the rise and development of the movement (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, George MacLeod, Teilhard de Chardin, and Thomas Merton). It offers a typology...

... assumed different forms in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, and in contemporary ‘new monasticism’. What, then, is Christian monasticism, and what are its essential features? It is surprisingly difficult to come to a definition of the monastic way...

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... conservative evangelicalism new monasticism methods ethnography Urban Monastery devon is a former Manhattan party promoter and international model who became serious about following Christ while on a photo shoot in Milan, Italy. Lilith is a critically acclaimed fine artist with an Ivy League MFA...

..., Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary ‘new monasticism’. The chapters in the book span a period of nearly two thousand years—from late ancient times, through the medieval and early modern eras, on to the present day. Taken together, they offer, not a narrative survey, but rather a map...