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Title

Poverty, celibacy, and obedience : a radical option for life / Diarmuid O'Murchu.

Author

Ó Murchú, Diarmuid

Publication

New York : Crossroad Pub. Co., c1999.

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Description

vi, 135 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Many people hold the view that the vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience embody laws or regulations that govern a religious or monastic lifestyle. Diarmuid O'Murchu offers a very different understanding of the vows, based on a much more ancient tradition." "O'Murchu claims that the vows are first and foremost about values and not about laws. And in this provocative work he suggests that the Eastern concept of nonviolence is a core value of the vowed life in all the monastic traditions known to humankind." "At a time when all forms of religious commitment are being questioned, this value-oriented approach is refreshing and reassuring. O'Murchu holds up each vow like a jewel, turns it, lets light shine on it, and presents it with a new glow, a new understanding. Not only vowed religious, but everyone interested in living these core values will appreciate his insightful and challenging views." -- Book jacket.

Subject

• Evangelical counsels
• Ahiṃsā

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-135).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Nonviolence: the way to wholeness -- The nature of vowed commitment -- Celibacy: is nonviolent sexuality possible? -- The violence of consumerism and deprivation -- The violence of patriarchal control -- Learning to relate nonviolently -- Beyond the collusion with violence.

ISBN

0824514734 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98041199^

OCLC

• 39700225
• SCSB-12903296

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library