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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

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  • The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

    The Apophthegmata Patrum: 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. TheirSayings 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

    $20.99 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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    by John Climacus ...
    The Ladder or "The Ladder of Divine Ascent" is an ascetic book written for a monastic community by John Climacus around the year 600 AD. It was composed for John, the Abbot of Raithu, which is a monastery situated on the shores of the Red Sea.The work became very popular in the Eastern Orthodox church and remains widely read today, usually during the period of Lent. The work studies the means of ... Read more

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  • The Imitation of Christ

    by Thomas à Kempis ...
    Translated by The Very Revd. Robert Jeffery ...
    One of the most influential and well-loved books of Christianity, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis appears here in Penguin Classics in a new translation by Robert Jeffery, with an introduction by Max Von Habsburg, notes, a chronology and further reading.The Imitation of Christ is a passionate celebration of God's love, mercy and holiness, which has stimulated religious devotion for over ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Institutes

    by John Cassian, Wyatt North ...
    This edition The Institutes, also known as Institutions, comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each book.Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 435), was a Christian theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings. He is known both as one of the "Scythian monks" and as one of the "Desert Fathers."John Cassian came very late into writing ... Read more

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  • The Conferences

    by John Cassian, Wyatt North ...
    This edition The Institutes, also known as Institutions, comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each book.Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 435), was a Christian theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings. He is known both as one of the "Scythian monks" and as one of the "Desert Fathers."John Cassian came very late into writing ... Read more

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  • Early Christian Writings

    The Apostolic Fathers

    by Andrew Louth ...
    Translated by Maxwell Staniforth ...
    The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and ... Read more

    $10.79 USD