Christian communities & monasticism books

A new generation of intentional communities is emerging with inspiring stories to tell of discoveries and struggles...  Read More >>

From the origins of Benedictine tradition to our everyday lives, A Rhythm of Life: The Monastic Way traces and reflects...  Read More >>

Cistercian Lay Brothers 1120-1350  Read More >>

Denis the Carthusian was a devout and gifted young man who founded and ruled a new Carthusian monastery at Bois-le-duc....  Read More >>

Through the extensive diaries of Presbyterian minister Oliver Heywood, this book explores the role that individuals...  Read More >>

The story of The Community of the Cross of Nails, born from the bombing of Coventry Cathedral in 1940. Today, it...  Read More >>

Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, or Sister Stan as she is affectionately known, has been described as a visionary and...  Read More >>

The Farmerfield Mission explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for...  Read More >>

The Quiet Revolutionaries recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the...  Read More >>

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In God is Red, Chinese dissident journalist and poet Liao Yiwu—once lauded, later imprisoned, and now celebrated...  Read More >>

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An engaging and insightful exporation of the origins and development of four great spiritual traditions within Christianity...  Read More >>

This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses...  Read More >>

Edition of rare surviving litanies from the middle ages, providing evidence for monastic worship.  Read More >>

Dictionnaire des ordres religieux, ou Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires et des congregations...  Read More >>

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

Dictionnaire des ordres religieux, ou Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires et des congregations...  Read More >>

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As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St...  Read More >>

This volume contains papers from the fifth conference on the military orders held in London. It deals with the archaeological...  Read More >>

Arthur Vaschalde provides a brief survey and translation of a manuscript containing historical details about the...  Read More >>

Chronique de l'abbaye de Saint-Benigne de Dijon; suivie de la chronique de Saint-Pierre de Beze publiees d'apres...  Read More >>