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Enriching Tradition: Monastic Wisdom Meets Scientific Insight

by Christopher Savage

The relationship of human experience to theology and the tradition it inhabits is more complex and dynamic than we think. While popularly many conceive tradition as a fixed reality into which we must somehow fit our experience, I believe that experience is the driving force that animates our theology and the tradition that has been handed down even today…

Christopher Savage

Brother Christopher is a monk of New Skete Monastery which he entered in 1981. At New Skete he has served in a number of roles: Director of the Dog Training program; principal writer of a number of the monastery’s books, including In the Spirit of Happiness and Rise Up with a Listening Heart; spiritual director; novice formator; retreat presenter. He was ordained a priest in 1995 and has served as Prior of the Monks since 2014. 

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