Benedict of Nursia
BENEDICT OF NURSIA (c. 480–547), Christian saint, monastic founder, and spiritual leader. Best known as the author of the monastic rule still followed by Benedictine and Cist...
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The Italian monk St. Benedict (ca. 480-547) was the founder of the monastic order known as the Benedictines. His "Rule" introduced practicality, order, and emphasis on community into monastic life in ...
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In the following excerpt, Butler surveys St. Benedict's life and monastic ideals.
St Benedict
One morning, in the early spring of the first year of the century, I was standing at a cave, loo...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1981, Zegveld presents an overview of the fundamental concerns in the Rule of St. Benedict and explores how the Rule is to be interpreted and obeyed in ...
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In the following essay, Ward investigates accounts and changing conceptions of the miracles associated with St. Benedict.
'One day when the brethren of this monastery were quarreling, one of...
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In the following essay, Davis summarizes the twelve degrees of humility in the Rule of St. Benedict, focusing on the state of selflessness required to achieve humility and realize the complete love of...
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In the following essay, Sipe endeavors "to extrapolate ten essential psychological features that show [Benedict's understanding of the human experience" that are addressed by the ...
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In the following essay, Hammett demonstrates "how a genuine care for the subjective dimensions of the monk's personality" is reflected in the Rule of Benedict.
We live in a wor...
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In the following essay, Theisen focuses on the methods of prayer and sacred reading contained in the Rule of St. Benedict.
The monk in Benedict's monastery leads a rather simple and balanced...
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In the following essay, originally published in French in 1991, de Vogüé undertakes an exegesis of the seventh chapter of the Rule of St. Benedict, which describes a monk's spiritual ...
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In the following introduction to his 1929 translation of the Rule of St. Benedict, Gasquet examines Benedict's religious and monastic ideals and the influence of these in early medieval Europe....
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In the following excerpt, McCann offers a textual history of the Rule of St. Benedict and summarizes its principal statements on the structure of Benedictine monastic life.
Scripsit monachorum reg...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in German in 1950, Hilpisch comments on St. Benedict's life and the organization of his monastery at Monte Cassino.
Benedictine monachism, cust...
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In the following essay, Schuster details the influential liturgy St. Benedict outlined in his Rule—later known as the Cursus S. Benedicti.
Besides the Roman rite, the Oriental rite, and the ...
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In the following excerpt from his preface to The Rule of Saint Benedict, McCann recounts the early history of the Rule and discusses issues surrounding its language and textual history.
Saint Bened...
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In the following excerpt from his Dieu premier servi (Serving God First), originally published in French in 1974, Kleiner comments on the spiritual importance of the Rule of St. Benedict and its endur...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1976, Vergote offers an interpretation of humility in the Rule of St. Benedict, tracing the ideals of obedience and self-knowledge expresse...
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In the following excerpt, Bell discusses various interpretations of St. Benedict's visio mundi, or "vision of the world," as recorded in Gregory the Great's biography of Be...
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Benedict of Nursia
Benedict, St.
Critical Essay by Cuthbert Butler
