About the book: Obedience is the submission of the person to the will of God, the fulfilment of a commandment whose value and meaning we cannot always see. This obedience is the fruit of faith that clings to God for himself and submits to every word of God, thus entering into the pattern which he weaves in the history of the world.
For many of us today, obedience is an unusual, even alien, notion. What can we learn from the members of the Carthusian order, for whom the vow of obedience, alongside poverty and chastity, is the most fundamental importance?
Carthusian spirituality teaches that obedience is not a contradiction of liberty. Rather, it is the way of love and of true freedom.
This fourth volume of the Carthusian Novice Conferences series (1998) illuminates the truth behind this paradox giving fascinating insights into how the vow of obedience is realised and lived out. The essence of liberty, we learn, is not the power to choose between good and evil, but simply to do good.
These spiritual reflections by a Carthusian novice master for those training for the life of silent love in the cloister show that in the obedience born of love, one responds to the all encompassing, deeply intimate and sustaining love of God.
The Freedom Of Obedience: Carthusian Novice Conferences is translated from the French by an Anglican Solitary.
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