A hermit (from the
Greek erēmos, signifying "
desert", "uninhabited", hence "desert-dweller"; adjective: "eremitic") is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in
seclusion and/or
isolation from society.For Christian society, the term was originally applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the
Old Testament (i.e. the forty years wandering in the
desert that was meant to bring about a change of heart).In the Christian tradition the eremitic life is an early form of
monastic living that preceded the monastic life in the
cenobium. The
Rule of St Benedict (ch. 1) lists hermits among four kinds of monks. Modern
Church law recognises consecrated hermits as members of the
Consecrated Life.
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