Christian communities & monasticism books

1622 books were found.

All Christians Are Monks: The Monastery, the Parish and the Renewal of the Church

All Christians Are Monks: The Monastery, the Parish...

Author: George Guiver
ISBN: 9781789593464
Format: Paperback
$60.59

A lively and challenging exploration of things the contemporary Church needs to learn from monastic communities,...  Read More >>

80 Days Journey with the Desert Fathers

80 Days Journey with the Desert Fathers

Author: Palladius Bishop of Helenepolis
ISBN: 9780645770476
Format: Paperback
$63.36

During his travel throughout the desert of Egypt in the fourth century, Palladius, was able to compile a collection...  Read More >>

The Life and Letters of Lady Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland (1536–1591)

The Life and Letters of Lady Anne Percy, Countess of...

Author: Jade Scott
ISBN: 9780902832350
Format: Hardback
$116.44

Collects the correspondence of a leader of the Northern Rebellion of 1569 who became a prominent figure in the English...  Read More >>

Mendicants on the Margins: Geographical, social and historiographical margins in the study of medieval and early modern mendicant orders

Mendicants on the Margins: Geographical, social and...

Author: Malgorzata Krasnodebeska D'Aughton ,  Anne-Julie Lafaye
ISBN: 9781782056058
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Mendicant orders of friars were a powerful religious movement devoted to poverty and preaching; they emerged in...  Read More >>

Strangers in a Strange Land: The Trappist Monastery of Saint Susan at Lulworth, Dorset, 1794–1817

Strangers in a Strange Land: The Trappist Monastery...

Author: David N. Bell
ISBN: 9780879072209
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The history of Saint Susan’s monastery on the south coast of England is as remarkable as the tumultuous times in...  Read More >>

Dwelling in the Wilderness: Modern Monks in the American West

Dwelling in the Wilderness: Modern Monks in the American...

Author: Jason M. Brown
ISBN: 9781595349798
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Intimate journey into the lives of contemporary Roman Catholic monks and their sense of place  Read More >>

Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Author: Catherine Coldstream
ISBN: 9781784745059
Format: Hardback
$55.00

In an evocative memoir, Catherine Coldstream describes life as a contemplative nun in the 1990s, and the dramatic...  Read More >>

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About...

Author: Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781324094449
Format: Paperback
$31.95

A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts...  Read More >>

Life and Death at a Nubian Monastery: The Collected Funerary Epigraphy from Ghazali

Life and Death at a Nubian Monastery: The Collected...

Author: Grzegorz Ochala
ISBN: 9782503600642
Format: Paperback
$364.32

The Christian monastery of Ghazali, located in Wadi Abu Dom, in northern Sudan, is one of the most famous archaeological...  Read More >>

The Monastic Footprint in Post-Reformation Movements: The Cloister of the Soul

The Monastic Footprint in Post-Reformation Movements:...

Author: Kenneth C. Carveley
ISBN: 9781032128955
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the influence of the monastic tradition beyond the Reformation.  Read More >>

Die Siegel Der Kloster in Schleswig-Holstein Und Hamburg

Die Siegel Der Kloster in Schleswig-Holstein Und Hamburg...

Author: Oliver Auge ,  Katja Hillebrand
ISBN: 9783795438272
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Kloster waren im Mittelalter Zentren spirituellen und kontemplativen Lebens. Neben dem zutiefst religios gepragten...  Read More >>

Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters

Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences...

Author: Thomas Merton, OCSO ,  David Odorisio
ISBN: 9798400800313
Format: Paperback
$158.27

Previously unpublished material from world-renowned Trappist monk and author, Thomas Merton, featuring the final...  Read More >>

Monastic Ecological Wisdom: A Living Tradition

Monastic Ecological Wisdom: A Living Tradition

Author: Samuel Torvend
ISBN: 9780814667972
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power

Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan...

Author: Alexandra Parma Cook ,  Noble David Cook
ISBN: 9780807180129
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Geronimo de Ore (1554-1630)...  Read More >>

Monastic Education in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Classical Paideia

Monastic Education in Late Antiquity: The Transformation...

Author: Lillian I. Larsen (University of Redlands, California) ,  Samuel Rubenson (Lunds Universitet, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781316646588
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Based on a close rereading of material and textual remains, this volume challenges the interpretation of early Christian...  Read More >>

Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism

Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism...

Author: Amanda J. Haste
ISBN: 9781032441788
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Brides of Christ: Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland

Brides of Christ: Women and Monasticism in Medieval...

Author: Colman O Clabaigh ,  Bronagh McShane
ISBN: 9781801510226
Format: Hardback
$116.44

Throughout the long history of Irish monasticism, the experience of women monastics has, until recently, been relatively...  Read More >>

The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 2

The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers:...

Author: Tim Vivian ,  Rick Kennedy
ISBN: 9780879072926
Format: Paperback
$131.87

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Robber to Repentant: The Life & Sayings of Abba Moses the Strong

Robber to Repentant: The Life & Sayings of Abba Moses...

Author: Shadi Kiryakos Nessim
ISBN: 9781939972743
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This is the English translation of the Arabic life of Abba Moses the Strong, according to a 14th century manuscript....  Read More >>

Shenoute of Atripe and the Rise of Monastic Education in Egypt

Shenoute of Atripe and the Rise of Monastic Education...

Author: Julien Delhez
ISBN: 9781680534665
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Addresses the monastic teachings of Shenoute of Atripe, an Egyptian author and monastic leader of the fourth and...  Read More >>

Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages

Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western...

Author: C.H. Lawrence (Professor Emeritus, University of London, UK) ,  Janet Burton (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Wales)
ISBN: 9780367767914
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt...  Read More >>

St. Maximus the Confessor: The Ascetic Life, The Four Centuries on Charity

St. Maximus the Confessor: The Ascetic Life, The Four...

Author: St Maximus the Confessor ,  Polycarp Sherwood
ISBN: 9781684931736
Format: Paperback
$47.49

St. Maximus the Confessor (1955) is a collection of theological works by the 1st-century monk St. Maximus, as well...  Read More >>

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