The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction Kreiner Jamie
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction Kreiner Jamie The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. We fantasize about escaping…
Specifikacia The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction Kreiner Jamie
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction Kreiner Jamie
The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. We fantasize about escaping our screens. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention.
We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks.But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God--to continuously contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements--were all-consuming, and their battles against distraction were never-ending.
Delving into the experiences of early Christian monks living in the Middle East, around the Mediterranean, and throughout Europe from
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