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Liturgical Press The Rule Of Saint Benedict A Doctrinal and Spiritual Commentary 54 Cistercian Studies Series 54
Book SynopsisA Doctrinal and Spiritual CommentaryTrade Review. . . the most important commentary on the RB that has appeared in our generation.WorshipA superb and essential book, presenting the results of decades of scholarship by Vogüé.Religious Studies Review. . . an important book by one of the great contemporary scholars of the Benedictine tradition . . .Review for Religious
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Liturgical Press The Life of Antony The Coptic Life and The Greek Life 202 Cistercian Studies 202
Book SynopsisThe Life of Antony constitutes, in the words of patristics scholar Johannes Quasten, 'the most important document of early monasticism.' Here is one volume are translations of the text in the Greek written by Athanasius and in the Coptic. Two short contemporary coptic texts further manifest the powerful influence of 'the father of monks.'Trade ReviewThis translation makes a number of significant early writings about Antony available, and that at a reasonable price. It is very welcome.SobornostDo not miss reading this treasure, giving it as a gift to others, teaching it in Sunday School, or help get it introduced in college Curriculum.Saad Michael Saad Watani
£35.38
Liturgical Press The Praktikos Chapters On Prayer 4 Cistercian Studies Series 4
Book SynopsisThe living link through whom the ascetic principles of hellenistic philosophers passed into monasticism, Evagrius molded christian asceticism through his own works and through his influence on John Cassian, Climacus, Pseudo 'Denis, and Saint Benedict.Trade ReviewEvagrius received the desert traditionabout prayer that had been developed over several generations before him. But he was the first to organize it into a coherent system.Coptic Church Review
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Liturgical Press The Rule of the Master 6 Cistercian Studies 6
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Liturgical Press Discourses and Sayings
Book SynopsisA shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimilating in an organized harmony the wisdom of his predecessors in the life of the Spirit. The ideal spiritual master to introduce modern readers to the spiritual universe of the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.Trade Review. . . no text I know renders the ascetic spirit more accessible to the modern reader.Religious Studies ReviewDorotheos lets us glimpse a little of the life in his distant time and place . . . He doesn't write about theological abstractions, but about the passions and sins that every one of us recognizes in ourselves, monk or lay. We know what he is talking about.Epiphany Journal
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Liturgical Press The Sayings of the Desert Fathers The Apophthegmata Patrum The Alphabetic Collection 59 Cistercian Studies Series 59
Book Synopsis`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 and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along the path to salvation.Trade Review. . . the only English translation of the most complete version of the Apophthegmata Patrum, a compilation of sayings from the desert monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine in the fourth to sixth century, likely to be widely read and enjoyed for their own sake.ChoiceA delightful insight into the lives of ascetics who left all to follow Christ . . . a very readable translation of an important collection of sayings.Sisters Today. . . should be on the shelf of every library concentrating in spirituality.Abba
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Liturgical Press Spiritual Friendship
Book SynopsisSpiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the 13 surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147-1167. This fresh new translation allows the intellectual and Christian insight of this great teacher and writer to speak clearly to today's seekers of love, wisdom, and truth.Trade ReviewThis new edition provides an especially good introduction, extensive bibliography of sources, translations and secondary studies and a crisp, new translation.Bonnie Thurston, Cistercian Studies QuarterlyThis small text provides much to glean, ponder, and in which to delight.American Benedictine Review
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Holy Family Hermitage Alone With God
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Holy Family Hermitage Camaldolese Extraordinary
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St. Shenouda Monastery Stories from the Egyptian Desert
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Blue Sapphire Books The Monk within
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Pleroma Publishing Ltd The Eros of Repentance
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Lulu.com Supplicatory Canon and Akathist to Saint Iakovos Tsalikis of Evia
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Lulu.com Supplicatory Canon to Saint Joseph the Hesychast
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Lulu.com A Monastics Lament For His Brother Who Has Fallen Into Temptation
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LEGARE STREET PR The Waters Of Siloe
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LEGARE STREET PR The Ideal of The Monastic Life Found in the Apostolic Age
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LEGARE STREET PR The Ideal of The Monastic Life Found in the Apostolic Age
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LEGARE STREET PR Enchiridion Benedictinum Complectens Regulam Vitam Et Laudes Sanctissimi ...patriarchae Accedunt Exertia S. Gertrudis Magnae Et Blosii Speculum...
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LEGARE STREET PR Monachologia Or Handbook of the Natural History of Monks
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Legare Street Press The The English Black Monks of St. Benedict Volume II
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Creative Media Partners, LLC English Monasteries
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Monks of the West
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Apologie De La Mission De S. Maur ApÃtre Des BÃcnÃcdictins En France
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Damiani Fuxhoffer Benedictini Pannonii Monasteriologiae Regni Hungariae Libri Duo... Auxit Maurus Czinar......
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Notitia Historica De Ortu Et Progressu Abbatià Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis B.m.v. Ad S. Gotthardum Dictà Et In Inclyto Hungarià Regno SitÃ
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Historia Mediani In Monte Vosago Monasterii Ordinis Sancti Benedicti Ex Congregatione Sanctorum Vitoni Et Hidulfi...
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Storia Della Badia Di Montecassino 1
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US Anglican Dominicans An introduction for seekers and the curious
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Paraclete Press A Good Life: Benedict's Guide to Everyday Joy
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Paraclete Press The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Contemporary
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Shambhala Publications Inc I Give You My Life
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Cosimo Classics The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Paraclete Press The Intentional Christian Community Handbook: For Idealists, Hypocrites, and Wannabe Disciples of Jesus
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Paraclete Press How to be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: A Guide for Benedictine Oblates and Other Christians Who Follow the Monastic Way: 2013
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Innovative Eggz LLC The Practice of the Presence of God
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Paraclete Press The Saint Benedict Prayer Book
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Lulu.com Elder Arsenios the Cave - dweller (1886 - 1983): Fellow ascetic of Elder Joseph the Hesychast
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Wipf & Stock Publishers The Nightingale
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Franciscans in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis is the most useful survey of medieval Franciscan history available. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW St Francis of Assisi is one of the most admired figures of the Middle Ages - and one of the most important in the Christian church, modelling his life on the literal observance of the Gospel and recovering an emphasis on the poverty experienced by Jesus Christ. From 1217 Francis sent communities of friars throughout Christendom and launched missions to several countries, including India and China. The movement soon became established in most cities and several large towns, and, enjoying close relations with the popes, its followers were ideal instruments for the propagation of the reforms of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. They quickly became part of the landscape of medieval life and made their influence felt throughout society. This book explores the first 250 years of the order's history and charts its rapid growth, development, pastoral ministry, educational organisation, missionary endeavour, internal tensions and divisions. Intended for both the general and more specialist reader, it offers a complete survey of the Franciscan Order. Dr MICHAEL ROBSON is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Theology at St Edmund's College, Cambridge.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Benedictines in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and influence of the most important monastic order in the middle ages. The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, andtheir acquired taste for learning, served as a model for the medieval church as a whole: while new orders arose, they took some of their customs, and their observant and spiritual outlook, from the Regula Benedicti. The Benedictines may also be counted among the founders of medieval Europe. In many regions of the continent they created, or consolidated, the first Christian communities; they also directed the development of their social organisation,economy, and environment, and exerted a powerful influence on their emerging cultural and intellectual trends. This book, the first comparative study of its kind, follows the Benedictine Order over eleven centuries, from their early diaspora to the challenge of continental reformation. JAMES G. CLARK is Professor of History, University of Exeter.Trade ReviewThe author masters with a seldom met richness a wealth of evidence from the infinitude of particular aspects of Benedictine monasticism. This richness not only stems from the broad perspective of the well-read author's tackling the matter, his constant flow of fresh quotations and references to medieval authors of all genres, printed or still in manuscript, but also his discussions and possible explanations carry the note of careful respect for historical truth within reach of historical possibilities. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW *A masterful work. AMERICAN BENEDICTINE REVIEW, December 2012 * . *[Advances] a distinctive and intensively-researched interpretation of the order's history. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *Impresses from the outset with its detail. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Many readers will enjoy this book, and it certainly merits a wide audience. It is also a must-read for specialists and is bound to become a key reference in future discussions about ways of telling Benedictinism's story in the Middle Ages. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *This attractive volume offers a broad survey of the Benedictines and their immense influence on the medieval Church. * CHURCH TIMES *Provides a comprehensive introduction and [is] an invaluable resource to all students of the European Middle Ages. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A work of impeccable and original scholarship. [It] is an especially recommended and seminal contribution to academic library World History, European History, Catholic History, and Medieval Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists. * LIBRARY BOOKWATCH *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Making of a European Order Observance Society Culture The Later Middle Ages Reformations Select Bibliography
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Canterbury Press Norwich New Monasticism as Fresh Expression of Church
Book SynopsisThe combination of Fresh Expressions and the explosion of interest in monastic spirituality is resulting in the emergence of new monastic communities inspired by historic patterns of religious life, but reframed for the contemporary world. This worldwide movement is seen as a radical expression of ecclesial community and was named in Mission Shaped Church as one of the leading new forms of church that would help people reconnect with Christianity. A new monastic community may be a dispersed group of families and individuals meeting to share meals and worship, it might be a group connected virtually; it might be a youth group exploring monastic spirituality. In this book, leaders of traditional religious communities and emerging 'new monastic' communities tell their stories and reflect on how an ancient expression of being church is inspiring and shaping a very new one. Included are many well-known contributors: Graham Cray, Tom Sine, Shane Claiborne, Ray Simpson, Abbot Stuart Burns and others exploring intentional living in the UK and the US.Trade Review'As an introduction to what the contemporary church can learn from our ancestors in the faith, this book is a helpful starter ... Bishop Graham Cray observes that our culture is making disciples more effectively than the Church, and shows how some monastic practices may help us catch up. Shane Claiborne's 12 marks of the New Monasticism are a very useful summary, and Tom Sine provides an insightful plea for us to help our young people reflect that they are the first generation since the war whose lifestyles will not exceed that of their parents.''This book is full of hope. Wonderful things are occurring. A different church is possible - one responsive to the signs of our times, compassionate, inclusive and passionate about God's Reign of Peace, Justice, Reconciliation and Wholiness. We need a book like this in a moment in which the forces of retrenchment are prevailing.' -- Frank Regan
£22.64
Canterbury Press Norwich Living the Jesus Prayer: Practising the prayer of the heart
Book SynopsisThe Jesus Prayer has been with us since the earliest years of Christianity. With its many variations, from “Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" to the single word “Jesus” it has been a fount of prayer and a way of being attentive to God for the monks, nuns, clergy and lay people of the Eastern Church for centuries. Today, the Jesus Prayer is practiced all over the world in every Christian tradition. Simple in form, but powerful in its potential to develop and transform the heart, it becomes a way of life for those who practice it. This short, simple guide is ideal for all who are new to this ancient spiritual practice and all who are learning to make it part of their daily practice of prayer.
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