Poor Therefore Rich
Carthusian Novice Conferences
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Followers of the way of Jesus Christ through two millennia have engaged in the joyful yet life 'costing struggle of responding to the challenge of being transformed into his likeness. This further volume of Carthusian Novice Conferences offers the father 'master's words of instruction on poverty to the men who have been drawn to the Carthusian form of the Christian way.
As with all of us, 'poverty' operates on many levels, and one of the most remarkable qualities of these talks is that they range over the economic history as well as the more traditionally spiritual teaching of the Carthusian Order in its own struggle to seek Christ in simplicity and silence.
Like al Christians, the Carthusians find Jesus the great Exemplar of the poverty that is desirable and yet 'costs not less than everything'; and once again we are reminded, with characteristic directness, of the source and fount of the desirable poverty - the total mutual self-giving of the Persons of the Holy Trinity.
Acknowledgements vii
1 The Poor in the Old Testament 1
2 A People Poor and Humble 6
3 The Spirituality of the Poor 11
4 The Messiah of the Poor 19
5 The Prayer of the Poor 30
6 Who Are You? 53
7 And I, Who Am I? 66
8 Mary and Her Song of Poverty 73
9 The Poor in the New Testament 76
10 St Paul and Poverty 84
11 The Rich 88
12 The Poor Christ 96
13 Poverty and Sharing 103
14 Evangelical Poverty in Primitive Monasticism 113
15 Some Texts on Poverty in Primitive Monasticism 124
16 Evangelical Poverty through the Centuries 134
17 The first Carthusians and Poverty 143
Map of the Desert of Chartreuse 155
18 Carthusian Poverty through the Centuries 156