I’m reading Community of the Transfiguration by Paul Dekar. Part of the small but growing body of literature on this ‘great spiritual movement of our day’, this slim 162 pp volume adds to the ‘New Monastic Library’ , a series edited by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and published by Wipf & Stock.
Dekar’s book follows his earlier article on Monastic Renewal in Australia (Evangelical Review of Theology, July 2007). It describes the life of Holy Transfiguration Monastery (HTM), a Baptist monastery Down Under. I’ll be reviewing a chapter at a time in the comments that follow…
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11 November 2008 at 6:06 pm
Carl
Well, the slim volume is finally read
Before launching the review, I must confess a certain irritation with what appears to be a fetish with religious PC in scholarly writing. ‘Eish!’ as we say in South Africa – and again I say, ‘Eish!’ Having said that, it is my perception that Dekar’s language is genuinely inclusive insofar as it really reflects his personal theology.
Gritting our teeth, then, we skip the foreword by Phyllis Tickle (penned in the “Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time, 2007″) and open to the Introduction…