The Restoration Project: A Benedictine Path to Wisdom, Strength, and Love

by Christopher H. Martin

The Restoration Project explores Saint Benedict’s twelve steps of humility, revealing how this ancient guide leads to wisdom, strength, and love. The book weaves prayer, poetry, and art with contemporary stories of brokenness, joy, and discovery to guide the reader to a place of spiritual renewal. The book is a cornerstone of a national initiative, also called The Restoration Project.

Genres: Nonfiction

159 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 16, 2014

Reviews

[Johannes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Martin attempts to analogize the process of restoring Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" to the restoration of the human soul using Benedictine spirituality. I like the idea, but I wish he had made the comparisons stronger and more explicit. As a general presentation of Benedictine methods, however, this book is a great primer.

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book designed for those lay people who want to live spiritually every day, every hour, every minute. Fr. Martin presents a version of St. Benedict's twelve steps of humility for everyday life (without becoming a monk or a nun). He gives practices and provides examples from his own life. Want to find the deeper you, the Restoration Project might just help!

[Susan]

Not rating as I don’t remember enough of what I did read of this book to rate it, and I didn’t finish it anyway.

I have friends who enjoyed this book, and one friend who loved it. For whatever reason I couldn’t get into it...despite being in a group inspired by it. Oh well. The group is a blessing in my life.

[John Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

An odd amalgamation of a commentary on Benedict's rule on humility, a spiritual memoir about living into that humility, and a call to the members of the church to adopt such humility in furthering our discipleship.

[Jennifer Kepesh]

I am not going to rate this yet, because it is a book for use with a Discipleship group at church, and I just wanted to get a feel for the expectations before the group starts. I know we'll be going into more depth with this later, but I'm not sure if it is to be a handbook or merely an introduction. Anyway, it is a book about following the Benedictine Rule of Life, introducing each of the steps.