Description: If the church is more than just a building, what could
it mean to live in it--to inhabit it as a way of life? From their
location in new monastic communities, Otto, Stock, and
Wilson-Hartgrove ask what the church can learn from St. Benedict's
vows of conversion, obedience, and stability about how to live as
the people of God in the world. In storytelling and serious
engagement with Scripture, old wisdom breathes life into a new
monasticism. But, like all monastic wisdom, these reflections are
not just for monks. They speak directly to the challenge of being
the church in America today and the good news Christ offers for the
whole world. Endorsements: Conversations between contemporary
Christian communities and Benedictine monasticism are among the
most surprising and promising in the church today. Given that the
roots of monasticism and of contemporary Protestantism lie in
different parts of the Christian tradition, mutual engagement
between contemporary Christians and monastics has been rare.
Recently, however, the scene has shifted, and Inhabiting the Church
represents the new eagerness to learn the art of living together
faithfully from experienced and ancient practitioners. --Christine
D. Pohl from the foreword ""Protestants looking for a richer,
thicker, more robust and enchanted way of living into the Christian
story should not ignore this invitation into the rhythms and
cadences of Benedictine spirituality. Indeed, only one kind of
person should avoid this book: the reader who does not wish to be
changed."" --Lauren F. Winner author of Girl Meets God and Real Sex
""This book is a timely intersection of the new and ancient,
breathing fresh life into an aging body. An older generation will
nd this book a long-awaited reassurance that the Spirit is still
stirring radical nonconformity on the margins of empires. And the
contemporary renewal of new monastics and prophetic tricksters will
nd a cure for the pretension and sloppiness that can so often taint
our vision or tempt us to pretend that there is 'something new
under the sun.' With both courage and humility, we will all nd
ourselves invited to inhabit the incarnational body that makes God
visible to the world . . . May it inspire all of us to become the
church that God longs for."" --Shane Claiborne author of The
Irresistible Revolution, founding member of The Simple Way, and
recovering sinner ""These folks are bringing things both old and
new out of the great Christian storehouse The New Monasticism is
discovering what is always rediscovered--and always bears great
life for the Gospel."" --Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. Center for Action
and Contemplation Albuquerque, New Mexico About the Contributor(s):
Jon Stock is a member of Church of the Servant King, publisher of
Wipf and Stock, and proprietor of Windows Booksellers in Eugene,
Oregon. Tim Otto serves as an Associate Pastor of the Church of the
Sojourners in San Francisco. He is also a part-time nurse at the
San Francisco county hospital, working with AIDS and cancer
patients. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a member of Rutba House in
Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of To Baghdad and Beyond.
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