Loving World

Marsha Dutton, the executive editor of Cistercian Publications, is a scholar of twelfth-century Cistercian thought and writing, best known for her work on Aelred of Rievaulx. She also writes regularly on medieval history and literature. She has most recently published Embracing God: Essays on the Spiritual Treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx (Cistercian Publications, 2025) and “Nuns as Chaplains in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods” (The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 2025).

• ContentsAbbreviations   viiiIntroduction: All Made of Stardust   ixMarsha DuttonChapter 1: From Being to Consciousness: The Journey to Spiritual Awareness   3Fr. Michael Casey, OCSOChapter 2: Music From a Different Night: On the Logic of Longing   35Dom Erik Varden, OCSOChapter 3: A Spirituality of Peacemaking   59Fr. Casey Bailey, OCSOChapter 4: Delusion Destroyed: Reflections on a Theme in Tolstoy   73Dom Bernardo Bonowitz, OCSOChapter 5: The Transforming Power of Forgiveness: Becoming Ambassadors of Reconciliation   99Dom Gregory Polan, OSBChapter 6: The Promised Land of the Heart: Some Reflections from the Journey to Inner Freedom   115Sr. Grace Remington, OCSOChapter 7: Word and Work: Praying with Mind and Body   143M. GilChrist Lavigne, OCSOChapter 8: “Start from Zero”: Monastic Life and Creativity   163Fr. Isaac Slater, OCSOChapter 9: Cistercians, Lovers of the Common Home: The Monastic Principle of the fuga mundi (Flight from the World) in the Light of Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato Si’   179Dom Bernardus Peeters, OCSOChapter 10: Some Aids in Furthering Our Awareness of Our Oneness and Connectedness   201Dom Joseph Boyle, OCSOAfterword: When Love Is Our Horizon   221Rob Lehman, Molly Lehman, and Deborah YeagerContributors   224Index of Scriptural References   226Index of Names and Places   228

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