Monasticism Definition

Monasticism Sentence Examples

• The views of the new Protestantism concerning monasticism are probably no less excessive than those of the old.

• But when, in consequence of the Arab invasion, the monasticism of those countries was cut off from intercourse with the rest of Christendom, it decayed.

• Like the new theology and the new science of law, the new monasticism was also rooted in Latin soil.

• The first monk to become pope, Gregory was naturally a strong supporter of monasticism.

• In all these lesser orders may be discerned the tendency of a return to the elements of Eastern monasticism discarded by St Benedict - to the eremitical life; to the purely contemplative life with little or no factor of work; to the undertaking of rigorous bodily austerities and penances - it was at this time that the practice of self-inflicted scourgings as a penitential exercise was introduced.