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Roger D. Haight presents a historical ecclesiology which is concrete, realist, and historically conscious. In what he terms an “ecclesiology from below,” Haight charts the history of the church’s self-understanding from the origins of the church in the time of Christ to the late Middle Ages. While the ultimate focus of the work falls on the structure of the church and its theological...

practice that grounded monastic spirituality in the Western church. The term “spirituality” as it is used here refers to the way persons or groups lead their lives, together with its reflective principles, all within the context of a relationship to ultimate reality or encounter with God. In terms of this understanding of spirituality, these two authors complement each other, with Benedict providing a rule for living out principles articulated by Cassian. . The tradition which
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