monachism in a sentence

1. European institutions - 1. the feudal system, 2. chivalry, 3. the Papacy and hierarchy, 4. monachism

2. The extent to which this spiritual poverty is practised has varied greatly in the monachism of different ages and lands.

3. When we consider Augustine's great prestige, it is easy to understand why his writings should have so influenced the development of Western monachism.

4. But the Latin writers, Rufinus and Cassian, gave accounts of Eastern monachism, and Palladius and the later Greek writers were early translated into Latin.

5. The authority of Charlemagne and of his son, Louis the Pious, did much, as we shall presently see, towards propagating the principles of the Father of western monachism.

6. This document arranged the relations between the various houses of the Cistercian order, and exercised a great influence also upon the future course of western monachism.

7. The main cause which begot monachism was simply the desire to fulfill Christ's law literally, to imitate Him in all simplicity, following in His footsteps whose "kingdom is not of this world".

8. The object was an elaboration of the Benedictine ideal, for the uniform preservation of which a highly centralized system of government, hitherto unknown to Benedictine monachism, except as suggested by St. Benedict of Aniane, was introduced.

9. If these were not strictly speaking monks and nuns, at least the monks and nuns were such as these; and, when the monastic life took definite shape in the fourth century, these forerunners were naturally looked up to as the first exponents of monachism.