AUGUSTINE BAKER

Frontiers of the Spirit

Victor de Waal

DAVID AUGUSTINE BAKER (1575-1641) was a Welshman, born in Abergavenny. A lawyer, and later a Benedictine monk and priest, Baker was an individualist throughout his life. He lived in a number of boundary situations—geographical, linguistic, cultural, religious—and often crossed frontiers. He encouraged Christians to make their home on the border­lands between this world and the next. There was no move to canonise him as a saint, but his own Order gave him the title of ‘Venerable'.

This book is an introduction to Augustine Baker's life and teaching and, through the use of extracts from Holy Wisdom and other writings, his own voice is heard directly. His teaching that spiritual direction, reading and prayer are of help to us on the journey towards the ‘vision of God' is as pertinent in the twenty-first century as it was in his own times.

VICTOR DE WAAL, born in 1929, was Dean of Canterbury 1976-86 and for ten years Chaplain to the Sisters of the Sacred Cross at Tymawr in Monmouthshire. He now lives in London and works with asylum seekers.

 

Fairacres Publications 161

ISBN 978-0-7283-0181-8

Price: £4.00 ISSN 0307-1405

This publication belongs in the series Living Tradition East and West