Cuthbert Butler

Palladius (Bishop of Aspuna)

A Critical Discussion Together with Notes on Early Egyptian Monachism

The Lausiac History of Palladius

With Other Essays Apologetical and Critical

Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit

Lausiac History of Palladius

Studies in Benedictine Life and Rule

Benedictine Monachism

Edward Cuthbert Butler

Dom Cuthbert Butler

The writings are meant to be studied from three distinct points of view: religious philosophy, material for the study of those states between mind and body such as ecstasy and trance, and for the sake of their mysticism. Drawn from the writings and teachings of Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory and Saint Bernard, the writings form a coordinated body of doctrine with what three great teachers of mystical theology in the Western Church have written concerning their own religious experience and the theories they based on it.

The Teaching of SS. Augustine, Gregory, and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative Life

Western Mysticism

The Teaching of Augustine, Gregory and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative Life

Western Mysticism; Second Edition with Afterthoughts

St. Benedict's Rule has been one of the great facts in the history of western Europe, and its influence and effects are with us to this day. This being so, it is surely strange that, as I believe, the Rule has never yet been made the object of an historical study setting forth on an extended scale its principles and its working. Commentaries there are, explaining it chapter by chapter; but so far as I know, there is no systematic exposition of what may be called the philosophy, the theory, of the Benedictine rule and life, no explanation of the Benedictine spirit and tradition in regard either to its inner life or its outward manifestations. The present volume is an effort to supply this want. It consists of a connected series of essays covering the most important aspects of Benedictine life and activities. It is addressed, of course, primarily to Benedictines; but it should appeal to wider circles--to students of the history of religion and civilisation in western Europe, as an account of one of the most potent factors in the formation of our modern Europe during a long and important phase of its growth: and also, in a special way, to those scholars and students who hold the Benedictine name in veneration. --from the Preface

Benedictine Monachism, Second Edition

Cuthbert Butler

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