What is happiness? Does Life have a meaning? If so, is that meaning available in an ordinary life? The Philosopher Zena Hitz confronted these questions head-on when she spent several years living in a Christian Religious community.
Drawing on personal experience as well as film, literature, history, biography, and theology, it demystifies an important element of contemporary culture, and provides a picture of human flourishing and happiness which challenges and enriches modern-day life..
Hitz\'s lively and accessible book explores questions about faith, sacrifice, asceticism and happiness through philosophy, stories, and examples from Religious life.
Religious Life -- the communal Life chosen by monks, nuns, friars, and hermits -- has been a part of global Christianity since earliest times, but many of us struggle to understand what could drive a person to renounce wealth, sex, children, and ambition to live a Life of prayer and sacrifice.
What is happiness? Does Life have a meaning? If so, is that meaning available in an ordinary life? The Philosopher Zena Hitz confronted these questions head-on when she spent several years living in a Christian Religious community
