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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
`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, …
The Desert Fathers
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 …
Three Treatises On Man
Three treatises by twelfth-century Cistercians, who reflect on the human person as the image of God and capax Dei, capable of God, of being reformed to the divine Image. Of the …
The Venerable Bede
The first English translation of Bede’s allegorical commentary On the Song Songs, along with selections from his homilies and the Ecclesiastical History, an introduction to his …
Discernment in the Desert Fathers
Discernment in the Desert Fathers is a study of discernment (Diakrisis) in the life and thought of the fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian Desert Fathers. Rich argues that their …
Great Beginning of Citeaux
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, …
Joy of Heaven
Spirituality scholars reflect on those prayers, biblical quotations and Christian texts which we know by heart, how they have influenced faith and what they have to say to us …
Anselm of Canterbury
It is a thousand years since the death at Canterbury of the great medieval Archbishop and thinker Anselm. This meticulously researched and immensely engaging book brings to life …
High King Of Heaven
It was not until after the conversion of the English to Christianity that any sustained information was written down about Christian life in these islands. This was done in the …
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
`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, …
Miracles and the Mediaeval Mind
In Company with Christ
Explores the power, the theology and the spirituality of procession and pilgrimage through the processions traditionally associated with Holy Week and Easter. This book also …