| Introduction |
7 |
| Chapter 1: Dark Night of Religious Life |
15 |
| 1. Exercises of life or of survival? |
17 |
| 2. Flavor, meaning and coherence |
21 |
| 3. Lights in the dark night |
25 |
| 4. Religious life and the ecclesial institution |
38 |
| 5. Guilty or responsible? |
43 |
| Chapter 2: The Discipleship of Jesus: |
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| Christian Life and Religious Life |
47 |
| 1. Singularity or identity of religious life? |
48 |
| 2. The universal call to discipleship |
50 |
| 3. The discipleship of Jesus, core of Christian life |
57 |
| 4. What does discipleship of Jesus consist of? |
64 |
| Chapter 3: Radical Faith and Discipleship in Religious Life |
73 |
| 1. The disciples of Emmaus: pre-paschal discipleship |
74 |
| 2. Paschal experience and post-paschal discipleship |
79 |
| 3. Radicalism in faith and in discipleship |
84 |
| 4. The lesson of the beginnings and radicalism..... |
89 |
| 5. “What are you afraid of, o you of little faith?”.. |
96 |
| Chapter 4: Are We Free for the Kingdom or |
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| Slaves for Freedom? |
105 |
| 1. Reflection on freedom and liberation |
106 |
| 2. Religious life and the pendulum of freedom |
110 |
| 3. “You have been called to live in freedom” |
116 |
| 4. Renunciation and liberation for discipleship. |
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| The theological dimension of religious vows |
122 |
| 5. Religious life: Is it a ministry of freedom? |
131 |
| Chapter 5: Poverty and Solidarity135 |
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| 1. Sign of contradiction (Lk 2:34) |
136 |
| 2. Two biblical traditions and their versions of the vow of poverty |
141 |
| 3. Call to discipleship and the renunciation of material goods. |
146 |
| 4. Jesus and material goods |
148 |
| 5. Poverty, wealth and values of the Kingdom |
156 |
| 6. Religious life and the vow of poverty |
159 |
| Chapter 6: Chastity and Community |
171 |
| 1. Strong times for the vow of chastity |
172 |
| 2. Two biblical traditions and their versions |
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| of the vow of chastity |
176 |
| 3. Call to discipleship, celibacy and family |
180 |
| 4. Jesus and the family |
185 |
| 5. Celibacy : love, community and mission |
190 |
| 6. Some conclusive observations |
201 |
| Chapter 7: Obedience, Consecration and Mission |
205 |
| 6. Strong times for the vow of obedience |
206 |
| 7. Obedience, consecration and holocaust |
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| in the two traditions |
213 |
| 8. The call to discipleship, obedience and renunciation |
219 |
| 9. Jesus: obedient unto death |
223 |
| 10. Obedience, community and mission |
228 |
| Chapter 8: Discipleship and Community |
239 |
| 6. Shaking the foundations of traditional community |
240 |
| 7. Prophetic tradition: grace and community |
247 |
| 8. Call to discipleship and to community |
252 |
| 9. Elements of community discipleship |
255 |
| 10. Community of discipleship and religious life |
260 |
| Chapter 9: Discipleship and Mission |
271 |
| 5. Being or doing? |
272 |
| 6. Vocation, discipleship and mission |
279 |
| 7. What kind of mission? |
283 |
| 8. Symbolic-political mission of religious life |
287 |
| 9. Politico-mystical mission of religious life |
297 |
| Chapter 10: Let the Spirit Come in Winter |
303 |
| 1. Preliminary clarifications |
304 |
| 2. Fidelity to the Spirit in religious congregations |
309 |
| 3. The spirituality of discipleship: movement, change |
314 |
| and conversion |
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| 4. Discipleship, conversion and conflict |
319 |
| 5. The art of living and dying charismatically |
324 |