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    Radical and Free: Musings on the Religious Life
    Radical and Free: Musings on the Religious Life
    Radical and Free: Musings on the Religious Life
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    Radical and Free: Musings on the Religious Life

    By Brian O'Leary

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    This book is the result of two preached retreats I gave to mark the recent Year of Consecrated Life (2015). However, the origin of the material goes much further back, drawing on my teaching experience both at Manresa Centre of Spirituality and at Milltown Institute (covering a period of thirty years). In both places I had taught courses on religious life – its history, theology, and most of all its underlying spirituality. Indeed, I have always used history and theology (and other disciplines such as psychology and anthropology) in service of exploring and renewing the spirituality of religious life. Another way of saying this is that I am above all interested in values (as appreciated, appropriated, and articulated). This lies behind my decision to structure the talks (now the book) almost entirely around the vows. After an initial chapter on the origins of religious life, I devote two chapters each to poverty, chastity, and obedience. My emphasis is not on the vows as such (dealing with questions that Canon Law might raise) but on the motivating values that the vows express. Only these values can explain why people enter and flourish in religious life. All religious, without distinction, are called to be “radical and free”.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMessenger Publications
    Release dateMay 12, 2017
    ISBN9781788121811
    Radical and Free: Musings on the Religious Life
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    Brian O'Leary

    A publishing veteran with 25 years of operational, management and consulting experience, Brian O'Leary is founder and principal of Magellan Media, a management consulting firm that works with publishers seeking support in content operations, benchmarking and financial analysis. With Hugh McGuire, he co-edited "Book: A Futurists' Manifesto, published in three parts by O'Reilly Media. O'Leary blogs about a variety of issues related to book, magazine and association publishing on his firm's web site, www.magellanmediapartners.com.

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