Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants - eBook
Stock No: WW6377EB
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants - eBook  -     By: Dennis L. Okholm

Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants - eBook

Brazos Press / 2007 / ePub

In Stock
Stock No: WW6377EB

Buy Item Our Price$9.99 Retail: $17.00 Save 41% ($7.01)
In Stock
Stock No: WW6377EB
Brazos Press / 2007 / ePub
Add To Cart

or checkout with

Add To Wishlist
Add To Cart

or checkout with

Wishlist

Have questions about eBooks? Check out our eBook FAQs.

* This product is available for purchase worldwide.
Other Formats (1)
Select this Item Product Title/Author Availability Price Quantity
$9.99
In Stock
Our Price$9.99
Retail: $17.00
Add To Cart
Quantity for eBook0
$9.99
Others Also Purchased (1)

Product Description

In their eagerness for reform, early Protestants hastily discarded St. Benedict's teachings with the holy water---and subsequently missed out on the many benefits of his scriptural insights and spiritual disciplines. Highlighting vital aspects of devotion, humility, obedience, hospitality, and evangelism, Okholm helps you slow down and dig deeper into God's Word. 144 pages, softcover from Brazos.

Product Information

Title: Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants - eBook
By: Dennis L. Okholm
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Brazos Press
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781441200402
ISBN-13: 9781441200402
Stock No: WW6377EB

Publisher's Description

In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed how the meditative and ordered life of a monk lifted Jesus' teachings off the printed page and put them into daily practice. Vital aspects of devotion, humility, obedience, hospitality, and evangelism took on new clarity and meaning. Paralleling that experience, Okholm guides the reader on a focused and instructive journey that can revitalize the devotional life of any Christian who wants to slow down and dig deeper.

Author Bio

Dennis L. Okholm (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is professor of theology at Azusa Pacific University and the coauthor of A Family of Faith: An Introduction to Evangelical Christianity.

Library Journal

The last ten years have seen unusual gestures toward rapprochement between traditional adversaries within the Christian tradition—namely, evangelicals and Roman Catholics. More and more conservative Christians concede that they have something to learn from the Pope’s church; in this brief but striking book, theology professor Okholm (Azusa Pacific Univ.) finds and celebrates the values of humility, hospitality, stability, and balance. Most of all, perhaps, and most instructive for Catholics as well as his primary evangelical audience, he sees the power of monasticism, even now, to transform the world, “to function as a ‘caution’ sign…to guide our relationship with today’s culture.” For most collections.

Publisher's Weekly

Readers might not think that poverty, chastity and obedience would be attractive to the common Protestant, but Okholm, a theology professor at Azusa Pacific University, will make them think twice. Although he is a Presbyterian, Okholm is comfortable with Catholicism and realistic about the benefits and burdens of both denominations. He finds in Benedictine monasticism a helpful path to holiness, and he avoids idealizing or romanticizing the monastic life. This is why his work succeeds as a guide for the common Christian. Okholm is wise to point out that St. Benedict's Rule, the text upon which his vision of monastic life is built, is both challenging and down-to-earth. The author invites readers to integrate some monastic practices into their daily lives and stresses that this does not involve cloistering themselves—these practices are both ordinary and sacred. He also provides an excellent example for Catholics and Protestants alike to dig deeply into the Christian tradition and find how both can spiritually benefit from the other. Okholm provides a "Historical Afterword" to address why Protestants initially rejected the monastic life. This is a fascinating and, considering its brevity, surprisingly detailed overview that readers should not pass up. (Dec.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Ask a Question


Author/Artist Review