Community And Abbot In The Rule Of Saint Benedict

• Table of Contents  Volume OnePreface to the English Edition   5Translator’s Note   11Introduction  131.  Cenobitism and Solitude (RB 1)   37Critical Note   37Commentary   402.  The Abbot (TB 2)   65Structure of the Text   65The Tradition: Directories for Abbots   81What is an Abbot? The Fatherhood of Christ   97Spiritual Father and Administrator   113Appendix:  The Abbot-Teacher and Priscillianism    1373.  The Council of the Brethren (RB 3)   161The Institution of the Council   161The Treatises on the Council   1684.  Obedience (RB 5 and 7)   179Texts and Sources   179Doctrine: Two Aspects of Obedience   223Abbreviations   253

Historians of monasticism will read this translation, as they have long read the French original, for its close exegesis and textual analysis of the eighteen chapters of the Rule of Benedict directly dealing with the abbot's authority, along with the parallel passages in the Rule of the Master that influenced Benedict.Speculum