The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study

The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study

The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study

Some evangelicals perceive monasticism as a relic from the past, a retreat from the world, or a shirking of the call to the Great Commission. At the same time,

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the M