LTRP Note: Christianity Today, the most prominent evangelical magazine, is a major catalyst for contemplative spirituality.
Re:discovering Benedict
by Jennifer Trafton
Winter 2007
Not long ago a church history professor at a prominent Protestant seminary remarked to us, “No topic touches young evangelical students more than monasticism.” Surprised? We were. Why monasticism? Why now?
In 1996 Kathleen Norris’s Cloister Walk, the quiet memoir of a Protestant woman’s experience in a Benedictine monastery, became an unexpected New York Times bestseller. In recent years, monastic spiritual disciplines such as lectio divina, a way of meditating on Scripture, have enjoyed newfound popularity among laypeople — seen, for example, in Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book, published by Eerdmans in 2006. Click here to read this entire article.
