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  • The Desert Fathers

    Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

    Edited by Benedicta Ward ...
    The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official theology of the "founding fathers" of the church, the Desert Fathers were ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world and live lives of celibacy, fasting, vigil, prayer and poverty in direct and simple response to the gospel. Their ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • In the Company of Christ

    A Pilgrimage through Holy Week

    by Benedicta Ward ...
    With In the Company Christ, Sister Benedicta Ward, a church historian, guides us through the history of Christian procession. Through the practice of pilgrimage we live the resurrection, and join a wide Christian community. Pilgrimage is a way into the eternal Jerusalem, a way into the Gospel. Over centuries of practice, the rituals and traditions of pilgrimage have evolved.Using the Holy Days of ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

    The Alphabetic Collection

    Translated by Benedicta Ward SLG ...
    by Anthony [Bloom] of Sourzah ...
    Series Book 59 - Cistercian Studies Series
    `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 uttered them, and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Signs and Wonders

    Saints, Miracles and Prayer from the 4th Century to the 14th

    by Benedicta Ward ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages. The first group of articles focuses on the Desert Fathers, the following ones examine key figures in the monastic history of the medieval West, dealing above all with England and with Bede and Anselm of Canterbury. Throughout, Benedicta Ward's aim has been to find an ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

    An Introduction and Selection

    by Benedicta Ward, The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede is a key work for historians, church historians and intelligent lay readers. Here is the perfect introduction.Bede's best known work, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, was written in Latin and is not immediately easy to understand and follow. Yet it is a key text for any student of English history. Rowan Williams shows in his ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Saint Mary of Egypt

    A Modern Verse Life and Interpretation

    by Bonnie B. Thurston ...
    Series Book 65 - Monastic Wisdom Series
    2022 Catholic Media Association second place award in mysticismFrom its origins in the fourth and fifth centuries, first in monastic circles and then in wider Christian communities, the story of Mary of Egypt was wildly popular. From early Christianity through the medieval periods, from Egypt to Scandinavia, verse lives in Greek, Latin, and vernacular languages portray her as the model of ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Great Beginning of Citeaux

    A Narrative of the Beginning of the Cistercian Order

    Edited by E. Rozanne Elder ...
    Series Book 72 - Cistercian Fathers Series
    In the closing decades of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe. Yet it had lost its influential spokesman, Bernard of Clairvaux, and as the century drew to a close, religious sensibilities were changing. The new mendicant orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, and the impulses they embodied were to shift the center of ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

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  • The Rule of Benedict

    by St Benedict ...
    Translated by Carolinne White ...
    Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict intended his Rule to be a practical guide to Christian monastic life. Based on the key precepts of humility, obedience and love, its aim is to create a harmonious and efficient religious community in which individuals can make progress in the Christian virtues and gain eternal life. Here, Benedict ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

    by A. Spearing ...
    Translated by A. Spearing ...
    Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language. These four texts are at the heart of medival mystical theology ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Selected Writings

    by Hildegard of Bingen ...
    Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors, yet it is largely for her apocalyptic and mystical writings that she is remembered. This volume ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Inner Voice of Love

    A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

    by Henri J. M. Nouwen ...
    A classic, personal work of self-examination from the bestselling author of The Return of the Prodigal Son, hailed as “one of the world’s greatest spiritual writers” by Christianity TodayThis is Henri Nouwen’s secret journal. It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved—even his hope in God ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Contemplative Prayer

    by Thomas Merton ...
    In this classic text, Thomas Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences–from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism–to create a spiritual path for today. Most important, he shows how the peace contacted through meditation should not be sought in order to evade the problems of contemporary life, but can instead be directed ... Read more

    $4.99 USD