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Chapter 8 - Community Rule

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2020

M. D. Usher
M. D. Usher
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University of Vermont
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“Community Rule” considers the reception of Classical ideas about systems and sustainability in Late Antique and early Christian thought with a particular focus on The Rule of St. Benedict. It also probes some of the Rule’s surprising modern legacies, including Scott and Helen Nearing’s homesteading experiments in Vermont and Maine and Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change and inequality, Laudato Si’.

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St. BenedictPope FrancisScott and Helen NearingChristianityecologyenvironmentsystems sciencesustainabilitylaboreconomymonasticism
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Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations
Ancient Guides to Living with Nature
 , pp. 184 - 206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Community Rule
  • M. D. Usher, University of Vermont
  • Book: Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations
  • Online publication: 26 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884518.009
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  • Community Rule
  • M. D. Usher, University of Vermont
  • Book: Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations
  • Online publication: 26 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884518.009
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  • Community Rule
  • M. D. Usher, University of Vermont
  • Book: Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations
  • Online publication: 26 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884518.009
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