Reading to live
Subtitle: the evolving practice of Lectio divina
By: Raymond Studzinski.
Series: Cistercian studies series -- no. 231
Publisher: Cistercian Publications; Liturgical Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780879072315
Subjects: Bible -- Reading
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of spiritual illiteracy; title: Various approaches to reading; title: Digital text; title: The printed book; title: Scholastic text; title: The monastic book; title: A method of retrieval; title: The art of Lectio divina : beginning of a Christian spiritual practice; title: Judaism and religious reading; title: Beginning of a Christian approach to reading; title: Origen, the master reader; title: The spread of a Christian practice; title: Women scholar-readers; title: Augustine, reading, and the self; title: The evolution and regularization of a practice; title: The desert tradition; title: Early eastern cenobitic forms of monasticism; title: Cassian and western monasticism; title: Rule of Benedict, rule of the master, and reading; title: The ups and downs of a practice; title: Eleventh and twelfth century reform; title: Bernard of Clairvaux; title: Hugh of St. Victor and the Didascalicon; title: Guigo II and the ladder of monks; title: The eclipse of Lectio; title: The revival of a practice; title: Toward a revival of Bible reading; title: The revival of Lectio divina; title: The phenomenology of reading and Lectio divina; title: Social science, psychology, and Lectio divina; title: Theological perspectives, narrative, and Lectio divina; title: Learning Lectio divina today; title: Lectio as actualizing the Word; title: Lectio as group activity; title: Conclusion: Lectio : the once and future practice.