{"product_id":"9780814639214","title":"Pillars Of Community: Four Rules of Pre-Benedictine Monastic Life","description":"Anyone who has explored a great Romanesque church has been impressed, even awed, by the mighty stone foundations supporting the great central tower. As four pillars give a firm base to these soaring structures, so four ancient Rules stand beneath the foundations of Western monasticism, giving a structure on which later spiritual architects, Benedict among them, would build. In this book Terrence Kardong explores the lives and Rules of four of the earliest monastic writers--Basil, Pachomius, Augustine, and the anonymous author of the rules of Lerins. In engaging fashion he shows how the lives and social milieu of these earliest founders shaped their monasticism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liturgical Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110246793456,"sku":"9780814639214","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814639214_p0.jpg?v=1763748420","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814639214","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}