The Good Life: Theology, Philosophy and Human Flourishing

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The Good Life: Theology, Philosophy and Human Flourishing

Agamben, Giorgio. The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life. Trans. Adam Kotsko. Stanford University Press, 2013. 157pp.

Banner, Michael. “Benedict and the Practice of the Christian Life.” In Christian Ethics: A Brief History. Wiley, 2009, 20 pp.

Bonaventure. Defense of the Mendicants. Övers. José de Vinck and Robert J. Karris. The Franciscan Institute, 2010. 40 pp.

Brown, Peter. The Body and Society. Columbia University Press, 1988. Selections.

Constable, Giles. The Reformation of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 320 ss.

Foucault, Michel. “On the government of the living (1980)”; “About the beginning of the hermeneutics of the self (1980)”; “Sexuality and solitude (1980)”; “The battle for chastity (1982)”; “‘I am not what I am’ - Foucault, Christian asceticism and a ‘way out’ of sexuality.” In Religion and Culture. Ed. Jeremy Carrette. Routledge, 1999. 60 pp.

Francis of Assisi. ”Rules of the Friars Minor”; ”Fragments of the Rule of the Clares”; ”Testament”; ”Regulations for Hermitages.” In The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi. Trans. Paschal Robinson. Dolphin Press, 1906, 50 pp.

Grundmann, Herbert. Religious Movements in the Middle Ages: The Historical Links Between Heresy, the Mendicant Orders, and the Women’s Religious Movements in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century, with the Historical Foundations of German Mysticism. Trans. Steven Rowan. Notre Dame University Press, 1995. 270 ss.

John Cassian. “On the Training of a Monk.” In The Monastic Institutes. Trans. Jerome Bertram. Saint Austin Press, 1999. 60 pp.

Kardong, Terrence. Pillars of Community: Four Rules of Pre-Benedictine Monastic Life. Liturgical Press, 2010. 267 ss.

Lawrence, C. H. Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Longman, 1989. Selections.

The Rule of St. Benedict. Övers. Leonard Joseph Doyle. Liturgical Press, 2018. 112 ss. Or other edition/translation.