Earlier this week, we finished reading Rowan Williams’s The Way of St. Benedict. Williams of course had been the Archbishop of Canterbury, and here he writes about St. Benedict and the Benedictines, as an outsider (at least of the religious order), but nonetheless still an impressively accomplished observer of the Rule and its influence. As a monk I must say it was heartening to read such a positive interpretation of the Benedictines and their founder. It makes for excellent monastic table reading, though near the end it becomes pitched at a more scholarly than general audience. This is especially true of the last chapter which focuses on Dom Cuthbert Butler’s attempt to demystify mysticism.
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