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Joan Chittister: Her Journey from Certainty to Faith, written by Tom Roberts

Joan Chittister: Her Journey from Certainty to Faith, written by Tom Roberts Joan Chittister: Her Journey from Certainty to Faith.Maryknoll, New York, usa, Orbis Books. Paperback edition 2016. Pp. Xiv+248.US$ 28.00. €26.90.Author of over fifty books, holding religious leadership positions when relatively young, a highly sought-after speaker on the international stage for more than half a century, Joan Chittister is surely the most widely read Catholic spiritual writer in English since Thomas Merton. In Her Journey from Certainty to Faith, Tom Roberts brings Chittister to life as she moved from her broken home (yet nurtured by her strong-willed mother), entered a monastic community at the age of 16 in a male-dominated Church, but above all in the period of revitalization in Religious Life following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). Thus Chittister’s remarkable life is set within the story of the Erie Benedictine community of more than a hundred women as they moved from an authoritarian practice of obedience to communal discernment and corporate commitment.In her numerous writings Chittister unearthed the underlying values of Religious Life as she reflected on the renewal of her Benedictine community, a community of strong women released in the mid-1960s from the regimented conformity of pre-Vatican ii times. She comes across as a deeply contemplative woman who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mission Studies Brill

Joan Chittister: Her Journey from Certainty to Faith, written by Tom Roberts

Mission Studies , Volume 34 (2): 2 – May 2, 2017

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0168-9789
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1573-3831
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10.1163/15733831-12341511
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Joan Chittister: Her Journey from Certainty to Faith.Maryknoll, New York, usa, Orbis Books. Paperback edition 2016. Pp. Xiv+248.US$ 28.00. €26.90.Author of over fifty books, holding religious leadership positions when relatively young, a highly sought-after speaker on the international stage for more than half a century, Joan Chittister is surely the most widely read Catholic spiritual writer in English since Thomas Merton. In Her Journey from Certainty to Faith, Tom Roberts brings Chittister to life as she moved from her broken home (yet nurtured by her strong-willed mother), entered a monastic community at the age of 16 in a male-dominated Church, but above all in the period of revitalization in Religious Life following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). Thus Chittister’s remarkable life is set within the story of the Erie Benedictine community of more than a hundred women as they moved from an authoritarian practice of obedience to communal discernment and corporate commitment.In her numerous writings Chittister unearthed the underlying values of Religious Life as she reflected on the renewal of her Benedictine community, a community of strong women released in the mid-1960s from the regimented conformity of pre-Vatican ii times. She comes across as a deeply contemplative woman who

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Published: May 2, 2017

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