Tag: Benedict

• August 10, 2012

  Review of Benedict’s Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of St. Benedict

  The following is a book review written for Philosophical Practice 7.2 (2012). Enjoy. Book Review Benedict’s Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict, edited by Patrick Henry, new translation of the Rule by Patrick Berry. New York: Riverhead Books (2001). ISBN 1573221902, 223 pages. REVIEWED BY ANDREW TAGGART PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTITIONER, NEW YORK, NY Not much…
• November 22, 2011

  On murmuring as a clue to the problem of authority

  In Chapter 40 of the Rule of Life, the guidebook that has served as a basis for Christian monastic life for the past 1500 years, St. Benedict discusses how much wine is to be apportioned to each member of the monastic community. Perhaps a “half-measure of wine every day should suffice,” he says, but then he…