Christian communities & monasticism books

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Saint Mary of Egypt: A Modern Verse Life and Interpretation

Saint Mary of Egypt: A Modern Verse Life and Interpretation...

Author: Bonnie B. Thurston ,  Benedicta Ward, SLG
ISBN: 9780879071165
Format: Paperback
$42.11

"""A modern verse life and accompanying essay reintroduces St. Mary of Egypt's life, with its theological and spiritual...  Read More >>

Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal

Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections...

Author: Heidi A. Campbell ,  John Dyer
ISBN: 9780334061595
Format: Paperback
$103.50

What are the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities raised by technology? How have developments related to...  Read More >>

In Search of Friendship: Lessons From a Monastic Tradition

In Search of Friendship: Lessons From a Monastic Tradition...

Author: Jennifer Campbell
ISBN: 9781789513882
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book introduces us to St Bernard of Clairvaux through the lens of friendship. Close reading of Bernard’s writings,...  Read More >>

A Life-Long Springtime: The Life and Teaching of Fr George Congreve SSJE

A Life-Long Springtime: The Life and Teaching of Fr...

Author: Luke Miller
ISBN: 9781789591989
Format: Hardback
$64.66

A biography of George Congreve showing his contribution to the Society of St John the Evangelist (SSJE) and the...  Read More >>

Holy Men of God: Kings, Priests, and Monks in Eastern Orthodoxy

Holy Men of God: Kings, Priests, and Monks in Eastern...

Author: Theodore Sabo
ISBN: 9781685073374
Format: Paperback
$188.86

This is a history of the kings, priests, and monks of Eastern Orthodoxy, an intriguing subject especially for Western...  Read More >>

Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Catholic Vision

Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Catholic Vision

Author: Gregory K. Hillis
ISBN: 9780814684603
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"""Illustrates how Merton was fundamentally shaped by his identity as a Roman Catholic""--"  Read More >>

The Abbey Library of St Gallen: Director's Choice

The Abbey Library of St Gallen: Director's Choice

Author: Cornel Dora ,  Philipp Lenz
ISBN: 9781785513787
Format: Paperback
$25.75

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The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios

Author: Robert H. Jordan ,  Rosemary Morris
ISBN: 9780674261198
Format: Hardback
$61.95

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople...  Read More >>

Coenobium: Reflections on Monastic Community

Coenobium: Reflections on Monastic Community

Author: Michael Casey, OCSO
ISBN: 9780879070670
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"""Michael Casey combines his observations about the joys and challenges of living in community with an appreciation...  Read More >>

Prophetic Witnesses to Joy: A Theology of the Vowed Life

Prophetic Witnesses to Joy: A Theology of the Vowed...

Author: Juliet Mousseau
ISBN: 9780814666838
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Hermits of Big Sur

The Hermits of Big Sur

Author: Paula Huston ,  Pico Iyer
ISBN: 9780814685068
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"""Based on notes kept for over sixty years by an early American novice at New Camaldoli Hermitage, The Hermits...  Read More >>

Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600-1800

Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English...

Author: Jaime Goodrich
ISBN: 9780817321031
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Provides the first substantive analysis of texts produced in English Benedictine convents between 1600 and 1800...  Read More >>

A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages

A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages...

Author: Scott G. Bruce ,  Steven Vanderputten
ISBN: 9789004470132
Format: Hardback
$612.48

Founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine, the abbey of Cluny rose to prominence in the eleventh century as the...  Read More >>

Handmaid of the Lord: Mary, the Cistercians, and Armand-Jean de Ranc�

Handmaid of the Lord: Mary, the Cistercians, and Armand-Jean...

Author: David N. Bell ,  Armand-Jean de Ranc�
ISBN: 9780879071882
Format: Paperback
$131.87

"""An exploration of what Cistercian writers and preachers have said about Mary from the time of the founding fathers...  Read More >>

Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism

Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation...

Author: Inbar Graiver
ISBN: 9780888444295
Format: Paperback
$99.00

Asceticism is founded on the possibility that human beings can profoundly transform themselves through training...  Read More >>

What Do You Seek?: Wisdom from religious life for today's world

What Do You Seek?: Wisdom from religious life for today's...

Author: John-Francis Friendship
ISBN: 9781786223456
Format: Paperback
$43.96

John-Francis Friendship spent twenty-five years as an Anglican Franciscan friar. Drawing on the whole breadth of...  Read More >>

Thomas Merton on the Christian Life

Thomas Merton on the Christian Life

Author: Thomas Merton ,  Thomas Merton
ISBN: 9781666528534
Format: Audio
$39.57

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.  Read More >>

Thomas Merton on the Christian Life

Thomas Merton on the Christian Life

Author: Thomas Merton ,  Thomas Merton
ISBN: 9781666528374
Format: Audio
$105.57

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.  Read More >>

Benedictine Options: Learning to Live from the Sons and Daughters of Saints Benedict and Scholastica

Benedictine Options: Learning to Live from the Sons...

Author: Patrick Henry
ISBN: 9780814666814
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Put Your Toe in the Pacific: A Friend's Wisdom

Put Your Toe in the Pacific: A Friend's Wisdom

Author: Jeffrey Aubuchon
ISBN: 9781734059267
Format: Paperback
$12.94

Father Michael H. Custer, O.S.B. (1910-2006) lived as a monk of Saint Anselm Abbey for more than seventy years and...  Read More >>

The Ideal of the Monastic Life Found in the Apostolic Age

The Ideal of the Monastic Life Found in the Apostolic...

Author: Germain Morin
ISBN: 9780648868873
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Dom Germain Morin's classic study of the monastic life shows its foundations in the life of the first generation...  Read More >>

The Social World of the Abbey of Cava, c. 1020-1300

The Social World of the Abbey of Cava, c. 1020-1300...

Author: Graham Loud
ISBN: 9781783276325
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A pioneering, comprehensive investigation into a major Italian monastery.  Read More >>

Frater Petrus, Collationes de tempore (Fourteenth Century): Volume 1: Collations 1-63 Advent through Easter

Frater Petrus, Collationes de tempore (Fourteenth Century):...

Author: Daniel Nodes
ISBN: 9789004439733
Format: Hardback
$557.04

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Kloster Werden: Die Ersten Jahre Des Stadtklosters Zurich

Kloster Werden: Die Ersten Jahre Des Stadtklosters Zurich...

Author: Hans Strub
ISBN: 9783290184223
Format: Paperback
$95.04

Das Stadtkloster Zurich ist eine Innovation urbaner und christlicher Spiritualitat. Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Was...  Read More >>

Dying for Pearls

Dying for Pearls

Author: Andrew Mayes
ISBN: 9780879071639
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"""Diving for Pearls is a prayer resource based on the writings of seventh-century Isaac the Syrian. It includes...  Read More >>

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