The Lord as Their Portion: The Story of the Religious Orders by Elizabeth Rapley
By Elizabeth Rapley
other than a couple of high-profile circumstances, nuns and priests this present day serve their church with heroic anonymity -- and, certainly, in lots of instances, their destiny is doubtful. but their previous is indisputable. The spiritual orders all through Christian historical past were the robust correct arm of the Catholic Church and a massive strength within the maturing of Western civilization.
Elizabeth Rapley superbly tells their tale in The Lord as Their Portion. Rapley has healthy the sprawling historical past of the non secular orders -- a few seventeen centuries -- right into a energetic, obtainable quantity excellent for curious readers. even more, even though, than simply a sweeping survey of the highlights (and lowlights) of monasticism previous and current, this ebook additionally recounts the lives of some of the person women and men who selected to take "the Lord as their element" -- and whose piety, devotion, and vigorous pursuit of a holy lifestyles have profoundly formed the process history.
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