Beverly Lanzetta & Bernadette Flanagan 
Embracing Solitude 
Women and New Monasticism

Embracing Solitude focuses on the interior turn of monasticism and scans the Christian tradition for women who have made this turn in various epochs and circumstances. New Monasticism is a movement assuming diverse forms in response to the turn to classical spiritual sources for guidance about living spiritual commitment with integrity and authenticity today. Genuine spiritual seeking requires the cultivation of an inner disposition to return to the room of the heart. The lessons explored in this book from women spiritual entrepreneurs across the centuries will benefit contemporay New Monastics–both women and men. The accounts will inspire, challenge, and guide those who follow in the footsteps of the renowned spiritual innovators profiled here.

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Bernadette Flanagan is Director of Research at All Hallows College (Dublin City University). She is the author of The Spirit of the City (1999) and coeditor of With Wisdom Seeking God (2008) and of Spiritual Capital(2012).