Irene Nowell 
Wisdom: The Good Life [EPUB ebook] 
Wisdom Literature and the Rule of Benedict

Contents

Foreword –
Abbot John Klassen, OSB

Preface: What Is Wisdom? Who Is Wisdom?

1. Fear of the Lord: Beginning of Wisdom

2. Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? The Mystery of Suffering

3. Wisdom and Creation

4. Wisdom in the Daily, Part 1: Eating and Drinking; Possessions

5. Listening: The Way to Wisdom

6. Wisdom in the Daily, Part 2: Relationships and Reconciliation

7. Wisdom and Joy

8. Christ: Wisdom of God; Center of Our Lives

Bibliography

Irene Nowell, OSB, is a Benedictine of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, where she has lived for almost sixty years. An accomplished theologian and biblical scholar, Nowell is a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association and the author of Numbers (of the New Collegeville Bible Commentary); Sing a New Song: The Psalms in the Sunday Lectionary; Women in the Old Testament; and Pleading, Cursing, Praising; all published by Liturgical Press. She is also a member of the editorial board of Give Us This Day (Liturgical Press).