Chapter

 1 1|       The origin of the monastic life.~During the fourth century
 2 1|          the first, the monastic life was a product of eastern
 3 1|         the second, the monastic life provided a way out when
 4 1|       and the Christian monastic life. Moreover, if Christianity
 5 1|       was born; yet the monastic life appeared well after the
 6 1|          Monasticism is a way of life which appeared within the
 7 1|       attention to the center of life and disregarded the periphery.
 8 1|       the first form of monastic life which developed within the
 9 2|      development of the monastic life. ~ During the middle of
10 2|       inseparable element in the life of Christians, and many
11 2|           and many of them found life undisturbed by persecutors
12 2|        real leader of the desert life was Antony the Great (d.
13 2|        the Great (d. 356), whose life was written with insight
14 2|  Communion. In this form, hermit life was not under the full control
15 2|        another. In this communal life, independence was curbed
16 3|      another. A communal form of life made it possible for women
17 3|    towards a less strict mode of life became apparent during the
18 3| constitution of the idiorrythmic life. The “contemplatives”, that
19 3|        of view, the idiorrythmic life may be regarded as a return
20 4|      monasticism~ Today monastic life has spread over the whole
21 4|      sanctified as it was by the life and death of the founder
22 4|       first he was appointed for life, and lived at Karyes, the
23 4|         abbot who is elected for life and has a council of elders
24 4|   reduces the vigour of monastic life there. ~ During the years
25 4|       From the East the monastic life was brought to the West,
26 5|       The ideals of the monastic life~ As the first ascetics withdrew
27 5| connexion with the idiorrhythmic life. But even here poverty was
28 5|        intense prayer. The whole life of the monks is dominated
29 5|    converse with God; “the whole life is a time for prayer” (Basil,
30 5|          mission of the monastic life in the East, in contrast
31 5|   reorganization of the monastic life on the older foundations,