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  • Exhortation to the Monks by Hyperechios

    Reflections on the Spiritual Journey

    Translated by Tim Vivian ...
    by Tim Vivian ...
    "Hyperechios’ sayings deserve to be known better and making them available in English translation makes them fully accessible to scholars/readers of all abilities.” —Greg Peters, American Benedictine Review“[S]tellar scholarship . . . a marvel . . . . This volume is a great basis for lectiodivina, for a retreat, for a class in the spiritual life and its vision and tools.” —Michael Plekon, ... Read more

    $42.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Teachings of Neilos of Ancyra

    Three Essential Works from Early Christianity

    by Tim Vivian ...
    Translated by Tim Vivian ...
    Three works of fifth-century monastic leader Neilos of Ancyra, for the first time in English translation, introduced and annotated by a leading scholar of early ChristianityNeilos of Ancyra (sometimes mistakenly called Nilus of Sinai) was a learned and wise rhetorician, who lived in the fourth–fifth century and became a renowned monastic guide and later a bishop in Anatolia (modern Turkey). He ... Read more

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  • Other Voices, Other Rooms

    Poems

    by Tim Vivian, Pamela Cranston ...
    Why do we tell stories? Why are stories so indigenous to religion? Stories. Sacred stories. The three Western Scriptures express themselves most fully, and deeply, in stories. The original idea of "story" is "inquiry," the "result of research, information, knowledge," "telling, exposition, account, history." Its verb makes verbal these nouns: "to seek to know oneself, inform oneself, do research, ... Read more

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  • Coptic Monasteries

    Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture

    by Gawdat Gabra ...
    Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art. Coptic Monasteries takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers, documenting in exhaustive detail the richness and the glory of the Coptic heritage. An informative introduction by Tim Vivian brings to life the early Christian era, with ... Read more

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  • Ministry Matters

    Pastors, Their Life and Work Today

    by Michael Plekon ...
    Congregations are shrinking and in decline. Fewer people are part of communities of faith. Michael Plekon's previous book, Community as Church, Church as Community, traced the factors behind this as well as the resurrection of parishes that have reimagined themselves in diverse ways. Pastors have played essential roles in such transformation. But where are the ordained today? Ministry Matters is a ... Read more

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  • The Life of Bishoi

    The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives

    Edited by Tim Vivian, Maged S.A. Mikhail ...
    Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volumeSaint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) enjoys tremendous popularity throughout the Christian east, particularly among the Copts. He lived during a remarkable era in which a litany of larger-than-life monastics lived and interacted with one another. Even then, Bishoi stood out as the ... Read more

    $42.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Fire

    Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers; New and Revised Edition

    Edited by Tim Vivian ...
    Series Book 300 - Cistercian Studies Series
    2025 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, History of Theology, Church Fathers and MothersRevised edition of Tim Vivian’s Becoming Fire continues to inspire readers with ancient wisdom for modern Christian contemplation.The sayings of the desert monks of the fifth and sixth centuries continue to inspire readers with their wisdom, and those who read them as the ancients did, slowly... ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

    Volume 1; A–H (Êta)

    Translated by Tim Vivian ...
    by Kathleen Norris ...
    Series Book 287 - Cistercian Studies Series
    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 an English translation, this volume provides:extensive background and contextual notessignificant ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

    Volume 2: Th–O (Theta–Oméga)

    Series Book 292 - Cistercian Studies Series
    The 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 an English translation, this volume provides:extensive background and contextual notessignificant variant readings in the alphabetical manuscripts and textual differences vis-à-vis the systematic and anonymous ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Holy Workshop of Virtue

    The Life of John the Little by Zacharias of Sakha

    by Tim Vivian, Maged S. A. Mikhail ...
    Translated by Rowan Greer ...
    Series Book 234 - Cistercian Studies Series
    Saint John the Little was a monk and hegumen of Scetis (Wadi Natrun) during the first great period of early Egyptian monasticism. The Apophthegmata preserve some fifty sayings by or about him (see CS 59, 85 '96). In addition, Zacharias, eighth-century Bishop of Sakha, wrote his Life, more than seventy percent of which is composed of material not found in the Apophthegmata. John bears witness to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • Know the Heretics

    by Justin S. Holcomb ...
    Series series KNOW Series
    Know the Heretics provides an accessible travel guide to the most significant heresies throughout Christian history.There is a lot of talk about heresy these days. The frequency and volume of accusations suggest that some Christians have lost a sense of the gravity of the word, while others have little familiarity with orthodox doctrine or the historic distortions of it.This book has everything ... Read more

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  • Useful Servanthood

    A Study of Spiritual Formation in the Writings of Abba Ammonas

    by Bernadette McNary-Zak, Nada Conic, Lawrence Morey OCSO, Richard Upsher Smith Jr ...
    Series Book 224 - Cistercian Studies Series
    Useful Servanthood introduces English-speaking readers to Abba Ammonas, disciple and successor of Saint Antony of the Desert and a prominent figure of fourth-century Egyptian monasticism. As a director of souls, Ammonas's approach to spiritual formation was a creative example of the spiritual gift of discernment. By examining Ammonas's writings and his ecclesial and political milieus, Dr. McNary ... Read more

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