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Working Bibliography, early peek

October 2nd, 2008, No Comments

A small version of my bibliography for a Research Bridge class assignment, as we’re learning about the Literature Review chapter in a dissertation. This bibliography will certainly expand massively, but there’s some goodies in here that I have just found. BIBLIOGRAPHY Aaron Raverty (2006). Are We Monks, or Are We Men? The Monastic Masculine Gender [...]

Final problem statement

September 21st, 2008, 2 Comments

I’ve gotten approval for this final version of my problem statement (I earlier posted works in progress): I am studying Celtic, Benedictine and Orthodox monasticism because I want to discover what frameworks these spiritualities provide so that my reader may understand how spiritual formation serves God’s mission.

Another try at my thesis statement

September 20th, 2008, No Comments

After a round of feedback from Winn on the problem statement I blogged a copy of yesterday, here’s another draft of my thesis statement: I am studying Celtic, Benedictine and Orthodox monasticism because I want to discover whether this spirituality can help my reader understand how to be spiritually formed in community today.

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I make my living as a software engineer and project manager. I have particular interest in social software, social networks, and systems that build relationship between people.

I blog a lot these days about spirituality and spiritual formation, and I have a particular interest in learning from the early Christian church's approach to spirituality and mission.

I'm a student at Bakke Graduate University, studying for a Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership for the Global City.

I'm studying spiritual formation in an Internet-based world. I'm trying to learn from early Christian spirituality's monastic movements: the desert fathers and mothers, Benedictines, Celts, Fransciscans and others, in order to see how they ordered their values and actions to be fully devoted to God's work. Their total devotion to the presence of God was countercultural, that can show us what it means to be countercultural in our wholehearted devotion to God in contemporary culture.

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