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Praktikos & Chapters On Prayer
Häftad, 1972
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273 kr
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Evagrius Ponticus is the living link through whom the ascetic principles of hellenistic philosophers passed into the mainstream of christian monasticism. Although not know by name for generations, Evagrius molded the ideals of western asceticism through his own widely-disseminated works and through …
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
The Alphabetic Collection
Häftad, 1975
274 kr
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`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who …
Halfway To Heaven
The Hidden Life of the Carthusians
Häftad, 1999
344 kr
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Founded 900 years ago by St Bruno, the Carthusians are the most completely enclosed religious order in the Catholic Church. Living alone and in silence in almost perpetual prayer, the monks are the spiritual heirs to the early Christians, the Desert Fathers. As the only order 'never to have been …
Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations
Av Guigo
Häftad, 1981
289 kr
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'My thoughts on the spiritual exercises proper to cloistered monks'; the ninth prior of La Grande Chartreuse ( '1180) articulates the monastic contemplative tradition in distinctively western terms.'...reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation. These make a ladder for monks by which they are …
Harlots of the Desert
A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources
Häftad, 1987
276 kr
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Beauty consuming itself like incense burnt before God in solitude, far from the eyes of men, became the most stirring image of penance conceivable. Stories on conversion from extreme sinfulness to extreme holiness have always attracted humankind’s attention, and this was especially so among the …
Athirst For God
Spiritual Desire in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs
Häftad, 1986
571 kr
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The Bible is the monk's book. The thought and teaching of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was so saturated with Scripture that the reader often cannot decided where the Bible ends and Bernard begins. From direct quotations to fine allusions, Bernard assumed that his readers were as familiar with the …
Talking Back
A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons
Häftad, 2009
316 kr
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How did the monks of the Egyptian desert fight against the demons that attacked them with tempting thoughts? How could Christians resist the thoughts of gluttony, fornication, or pride that assailed them and obstructed their contemplation of God? According to Evagrius of Pontus (345 '399), one of …
Discourses and Sayings
Häftad, 1977
406 kr
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A shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is also a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimilating in an organized harmony the wisdom of his precedessors in the life of the Spirit. Yet he is far more interested in humbly serving his brethren than in …
Luminous Eye
The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian
Häftad, 1992
374 kr
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All but unknown outside the Syrian tradition, Ephrem's rich theology of symbol, asceticism, and prayer amply deserves to stand beside his more famous Greek contemporaries.
Praying The Word
An Introduction to Lectio Divina
Av Enzo Bianchi
Häftad, 1999
276 kr
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Scripture brings the Word of God to us when we read and welcome it in faith as the Word which comes from God and leads to God. Scripture is the means by which we live in God. The ancient monastic (and patristic) way of reading Scripture involves reflection (meditation) and prayer. It is listening …
Way Of Silent Love
Carthusian Novice Conferences
Av A Carthusian
Häftad, 1993
296 kr
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A carthusian novice master reminds his charges, and his readers, that the call to live wholly and radically in Christ is the vocation of al Christians and all humanity. 'The Christian is not a separate species of human being, but what each person is called to be. And the monk is not a separate …
Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
Volume 1; A–H (Êta)
Häftad, 2021
525 kr
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2022 Catholic Media Association second place award in theology: history of theology, church fathers and mothersThe Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the first time in …
Penthos
The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East
Häftad, 1982
423 kr
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If joy in the resurrection is the distinguishing mark of christian faith, why have christian saints throughout the ages prayed for 'the gift of tears'? What place has penthos, heartfelt compunction, in the sure and certain hope of life in Christ? Weeping for Christ crucified is not christian. …
Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)
An Existential and Spiritual Biography
Häftad, 2020
652 kr
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2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in English translation editionThis book places the life of Aelred of Rievaulx, third abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, within the hundred-year period from the Norman Conquest of England in October 1066 through Aelred's death …
Maronites
The Origins of an Antiochene Church
Av Naaman Paul
Häftad, 2011
374 kr
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The Maronite Church is one of twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope of Rome. Her patriarch is in Lebanon. Forty-three bishops and approximately five million faithful make up her presence throughout the world.The story of Maron, a fifth-century hermit-priest, and the …
Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles
Häftad, 1985
374 kr
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Best known in the Middle Ages as a scriptural exegete, Bede here provides a running gloss on the Letters of James, Peter, John, and Jude. Why he chose these `lesser letters' for his first attempt at written exegesis no one knows; perhaps he did so because so few other scriptural commentators had …
Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control
Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First
Häftad, 2017
325 kr
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This book introduces a beautiful fourth-century Coptic discourse on love and self-control in its first English translation. The text’s heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the …
Medieval Exempla in Transition
Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum and Its Readers
Häftad, 2023
471 kr
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This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219–1223), one of the most compelling and successful Cistercian collections of miracles and memorable events, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It ranges across different media and within …
Thoughts and Reflections of Armand-Jean de Rancé, Abbot of la Trappe
Av Armand-Jean de Rancé, Jacques Marsollier
Häftad, 2022
341 kr
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Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626–1700), the reforming abbot of la Trappe, was a prolific writer in a verbose age. Until he was in his thirties, he enjoyed the life of a young man about town, but then, after experiencing a dramatic conversion, he left the world forever for the silence and austerity of la …
Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug
A New Translation and Introduction
Häftad, 2014
669 kr
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The thirteen Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (445-523) were delivered to new monks at a monastery under his episcopal care. Written in elegant Syriac, the Discourses deal with the fundamentals of the monastic and ascetic life-faith, simplicity, fear of God, renunciation, and the struggle against …
Moral Reflections on the Book of Job, Volume 1
Preface and Books 1-5
Inbunden, 2014
571 kr
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Gregory the Great was pope from 590 to 604, a time of great turmoil in Italy and in the western Roman Empire generally because of the barbarian invasions. Gregory’s experience as prefect of the city of Rome and as apocrisarius of Pope Pelagius fitted him admirably for the new challenges of the …
Very Devout Meditations attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux
A Translation with Introduction and Notes of the Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis
Av David N Bell
Häftad, 2023
324 kr
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There were two Bernards of Clairvaux. The first was the genuine Bernard who lived from 1090 to 1153, and wrote letters, sermons, and treatises that are of major consequence in the history of the twelfth century. The second is a host of writers, most of whom have not been identified, who wrote …
Benedictine Reader
1530–1930
Av Hugh Feiss, Hugh B. Feiss OSB m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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A Benedictine Reader shares the treasures of the Benedictine traditionthrough the collaboration of a dozen scholars. It provides a broad and deep sense of the reality of Benedictine monasticism using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and …
Three Pseudo-Bernardine Works
Av Ann W. Astell, Joseph Wawrykow
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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During the "Silver Age" of the Cistercians (the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries), pseudepigraphical compositions bearing the name Bernard flourished. Important for the history of monasticism and, more broadly, of Christian spiritual formation and practice, these little-studied writings …
Handmaid of the Lord
Mary, the Cistercians, and Armand-Jean de Rancé
Häftad, 2021
667 kr
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In this book, David N. Bell explores what Cistercian writers and preachers have said about Mary from the time of the founding fathers of the Order to Armand-Jean de Rancé, who introduced the Cistercian Strict Observance and who died in 1700. This work is divided into three parts. The first part …
Embracing God
Essays on the Spiritual Treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx
Häftad, 2025
601 kr
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2026 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Spirituality ClassicalThese spiritual reflections guide their readers toward God’s embrace. In Embracing God, Marsha L. Dutton surveys the interwoven structures and themes of five treatises, showing how Aelred guides his readers to cling forever …
Letters Of Saint Anselm Of Canterbury
Volume 2 Letters 148-309, as Archbishop of Canterbury
Häftad, 2022
571 kr
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A monk and a scholar generally recognized as the keenest philosophical and theological mind of his time, of Bec, found himself forcibly and unwillingly invested as Archbishop of Canterbury on 6 March 1093. It was the first of many sharp differences between the Norman King and an archbishop who …
Rule for Solitaries
Av Grimlaicus
Häftad, 2011
374 kr
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The monk Grimlaicus (ca. 900) wrote a rule for those who, like himself, pursued the solitary life within a monastic community. Never leaving their cell yet participating in the liturgical life of the monastery through a window into the church, these enclosed" sought to serve God alone. Beyond the …
What Nuns Read
Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries
Häftad, 2022
571 kr
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The literacy and education of medieval nuns has been a subject of dispute and study in recent years. In his third Index of medieval libraries, David Bell presents a comprehensive list of all manuscripts and printed books which have been traced with certainty or high probability to english …
Saint Mary of Egypt
Three Medieval Lives in Verse
Häftad, 2006
430 kr
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The saintly austerities of Mary of Egypt so impressed early monks that they recorded her life to edify their brethren. Many versions circulated and the tale traveled from Palestine to Europe, from Greek to Latin to French to Spanish, from prose to poetry, from hagiography to literature, and from …
