Download or read book Monastic Life: A Sign of Contradiction to the Fashionable Idols written by Bonnie B. Thurston and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 174 From its beginnings the monastic life has presented a counter-cultural way of living: a contemplative search for God dependent on simplicity of life at odds with society’s latest fashions. Monastic community life, where the members are formed in love of God and of each other, is a distinct challenge to idolatry and injustice, reminiscent of the prophets of old. Bonnie Thurston reflects on how the contemplative and prophetic voices of monasticism are expressed in the current context of twenty-first century living.