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Poverty, Celibacy and Obedience: A Radical Option for Life »
Authors: Diarmuid O'Murchu
ISBN-13: 9780824514730, ISBN-10: 0824514734
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
Date Published: March 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Diarmuid O'Murchu
Book Synopsis
Many people hold the view that the vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience embody laws or regulations that govern a religious or monastic lifestyle. Diarmuid O'Murchu offers a very different understanding of the vows, based on a much more ancient tradition.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Nonviolence: The Way to Wholeness | 5 |
| 2 | The Nature of Vowed Commitment | 21 |
| 3 | Celibacy: Is Nonviolent Sexuality Possible? | 40 |
| 4 | The Violence of Consumerism and Deprivation | 64 |
| 5 | The Violence of Patriarchal Control | 82 |
| 6 | Learning to Relate Nonviolently | 99 |
| 7 | Beyond the Collusion with Violence | 114 |
| Notes | 129 | |
| Bibliography | 133 |
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