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Doctrine and Life, 2019
This three-part article considers the Instruction "Cor orans" (May 15, 2018), an Instruction whic... more This three-part article considers the Instruction "Cor orans" (May 15, 2018), an Instruction which applies Pope Francis' Apostolic Constitution "Vultum Dei Quaerere" of July 22, 2016), which affects communities of nuns. The three parts look respectively at the background, content, and implications of "Cor orans".
Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 2004
Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 1999
In books on the history of the Order, we usually find a chapter on "the nuns" tucked away towards... more In books on the history of the Order, we usually find a chapter on "the nuns" tucked away towards the end, as a kind of appendix (if they are mentioned at all). What is said about them often emphasizes that although they proliferated from the very beginning, the nun's monasteries were "unofficial" and disruptive of the men's authentic Cistercian life.
Through a re-reading of some early texts, this paper shows that the growth of monasteries of nuns was not the reluctant adoption of something fundamentally foreign to the Order, but as an essential part of its growth.
Doctrine and Life, 2019
This three-part article considers the Instruction "Cor orans" (May 15, 2018), an Instruction whic... more This three-part article considers the Instruction "Cor orans" (May 15, 2018), an Instruction which applies Pope Francis' Apostolic Constitution "Vultum Dei Quaerere" of July 22, 2016), which affects communities of nuns. The three parts look respectively at the background, content, and implications of "Cor orans".
Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 2004
Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 1999
In books on the history of the Order, we usually find a chapter on "the nuns" tucked away towards... more In books on the history of the Order, we usually find a chapter on "the nuns" tucked away towards the end, as a kind of appendix (if they are mentioned at all). What is said about them often emphasizes that although they proliferated from the very beginning, the nun's monasteries were "unofficial" and disruptive of the men's authentic Cistercian life.
Through a re-reading of some early texts, this paper shows that the growth of monasteries of nuns was not the reluctant adoption of something fundamentally foreign to the Order, but as an essential part of its growth.