How To Use Monasticism In A Sentence
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This already intriguing combination of militarism and monasticism soon gave way to an equally mysterious, yet very real, power.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
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The two brands of monasticism differed in their attitude toward the state, and toward the question of monachal property.
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I wish that Mr. Montefiore had expanded his book a little some of his most interesting bits are relegated to footnotes, and told us something about the origins of the synagogue and of monasticism, which is essential to the story of Jerusalem, but clearly a non-Jewish phenomenon.
The City With the Big Ego
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Homosexual love was important in this period and carried over into Christian monasticism.
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JOSEPH KOTERSKI, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: I suspect that what he's doing is thinking all the way back to St. Benedict, who was a 6th century individual, who's the founder of Western monasticism, that is the beginning of monasteries in Europe.
CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2005
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Christian monasticism evolved from the hermit communities founded in the 3rd century by men fleeing from Roman persecution to the Egyptian and Syrian deserts, where they sought union with God.
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A friend of mine used to comment that he wished he'd known that marriage would be a kind of monasticism, and asked us to call him "Brother John".
The dreariest subject in the world: How to spice up your marriage.
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I suggest that these connotations, reiterated and readapted in the context of Marian doctrine and female monasticism, are the key to Andrea del Sarto's altarpiece.
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This movement or family of traditions is called monasticism, literally meaning, "dwelling alone," and was established during the early church as a protest against the increasing worldliness of the church.
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Celtic Christianity in the sixth through tenth centuries was characterized by its extreme asceticism, its love of learning, and its distinctive monasticism.
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The development of monasticism introduced a dualism into Christian morality, in that it proposed for the ascetes a morality essentially different from that of the rest of the Christian world, the latter being based upon the divine command, and the former upon pretended divine counsels; with this error were more or less affected Lactantius, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Jerome, and Augustine.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.
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Monasticism was introduced into Anglo-Saxon England by Augustine of Canterbury, himself a monk, the first community being St Augustine's, Canterbury.
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Benedict is considered the founder of Western monasticism, a man who said prayer comes first and work is then absorbed into prayer and becomes a part of it.
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Almost lost are the traditions of response and theory embodied in the contemplative tradition, once at home in monasticism.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As demonstrated at the beginning of this article, their support for convents had allowed female monasticism to flourish in the early-modern period.
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While there is not too much on the theology of the cross, or on the phenomenon of monasticism, all authors speak from the reality of a crucified, ascetic tradition.
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The period following the recapture of Constantinople in 1261 was marked by liturgical consolidation and musical creativity, processes in which monasticism played a leading role.
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But a very different view found its expression in early monasticism, where wealth and its temptations were seen as a constant threat to Christian contemplation.
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In England, the staunch royalism of the reformed monasteries was reciprocated by King Edgar's support for the enhancement of clerical status through adherence to the ideals of Benedictine monasticism.
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There is a joyless monasticism in his dogged conquest of stacks of research.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or are you discouraged by the austerity — monasticism, even — of the regime?
Times, Sunday Times
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In protest, some believers adopted a way of life known as monasticism.
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The dreadlocked Shane Claiborne is here, author of The Irresistible Revolution (2006) and a leader of a movement known as the New Monasticism.
Sing to the Lord a New Song
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Uphold your vows strictly, be they marriage, monasticism, nonaddiction, tithing, loyalty to a lineage, vegetarianism or nonsmoking.
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His influence on them led to his being regarded as the father of monasticism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization.
Les Miserables
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Unlike traditional monasticism, such communities are open to married couples.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the words of a leading twentieth-century Athonite monk, Fr Theoklitos of Dionysiou, ‘it is the eremitic life that constitutes the primary form of monasticism in the East.’
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By contrast, the vision of early monasticism presented in the Letters of Antony should be understood as both authentic and reliable.
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Monasticism is a spiritual way of life that is found in many different religious faiths.
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The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
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Is monasticism a purer search for God or only a way of life some people need?
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State as the expression of her ‘other-worldly’ sentiment, then monasticism has indeed conquered in her; but if we see, in the manner in which she to-day maintains this attitude, an essential secularisation, then it is precisely the Jesuitic monasticism which is to be made answerable therefor.
Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
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In this way, travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move: On the road, we often live more simply even when staying in a luxury hotel, with no more possessions than we can carry, and surrendering ourselves to chance.
Jason Silva: Oh to Wanderfly (and How It'll Help You Travel)
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Rejected by Luther is the idea that some occupations, such as the priesthood or monasticism, are spiritually superior to others, such as parenting.
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Basil of Caesarea (33079), a leading Greek theologian, attacked the eremitic life, because of the impossibility of material self-sufficiency, the excessive concern with the self, and the lack of opportunity for the exercise of charity; he espoused cenobitism, which eventually became the common form of monasticism in the West.
B. The Early Church
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Early Irish monasticism is usually associated with its rigour and has been known to be compared to the tradition of the Egyptian Desert Fathers.
Early and Mediaeval Irish Ecclesiastical Art
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Following closely to this preoccupation with asceticism was monasticism which spread with incredible rapidity.
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There is a very noticeable similarity between the spirit that animated the hierarchical Ottonian empire and liturgical England, on the one hand, and the new French and Burgundian monasticism of the tenth century on the other.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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While in the extreme north, Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness, the Church remained missionary rather than parochial, in the Scotland of the south monasticism became prominent again under a new order called, in Goidelic, "Culdees" (servants of God).
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
