San Antonio College Library

"A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"-- "The digital era is beset by distraction: we fantasize about escaping our screen, and recapturing a world with less noise. Kreiner demonstrates that the attempts of monks to contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements were all-consuming, and their battles...