Christian communities & monasticism books

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action - where freedom incurs responsibility - was a...  Read More >>

Christ, the Life of the Soul is a modern spiritual classic. Drawing upon the Scriptures, the Liturgy, and the Doctors...  Read More >>

A case study in opposition to religious authority in the pre-modern period, Geltner treats a phenomenon known as...  Read More >>

Monasticism Loose in the Church  Read More >>

Conrad, a monk of Eberbach in Germany, weaves both documentary history and edifying exempla into a history of monasticism...  Read More >>

Aims to investigate all surviving texts associated with the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis founded in 1049...  Read More >>

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Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise....  Read More >>

This book explores the origins of the role of the Master or head of the order of Sempringham, the only monastic...  Read More >>

E. A. Wallis Budge presents here the Syriac text of a metrical, acrostic work that covers the life of Rabban Hormizd...  Read More >>

Cassian intended the scriptures and, implicitly, the Conferences to be the voices of authority and orthodoxy in...  Read More >>

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A sumptuous history of Renaissance Florence  Read More >>

A French historian and archivist, Benjamin Guérard (1797–1854) made important contributions to the study of medieval...  Read More >>

A new edition of the popular ‘office’ hymn book, Hymns for Prayer and Praise provides carefully-selected hymns for...  Read More >>

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Fourth-century Aphrahat is characterized as misogynist, especially when he compares women to Satan. This may be...  Read More >>

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! New Monasticism, or Neomonasticism, can refer either to a modern movement...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold...  Read More >>

A historical and a theological analysis of the most important movement in twentieth-century Roman Catholic theology....  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold...  Read More >>

General readers will enjoy learning about Saint Francis in this book and how hagiography shaped the public stories...  Read More >>