Christian communities & monasticism books

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A Retreat with Thomas Merton: A Seven-Day Spiritual Journey

A Retreat with Thomas Merton: A Seven-Day Spiritual...
Author: Esther De Waal ISBN: 9798400800351 Format: Paperback	$60.59
"""In this book, Esther de Waal devises a seven-day personal or group retreat program using excerpts from Thomas... Read More >>

Speculum Inclusorum / A Mirror for Recluses: A Late-Medieval Guide for Anchorites and its Middle English Translation

Speculum Inclusorum / A Mirror for Recluses: A Late-Medieval...
Author: E. A. Jones (Department of English, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)) ISBN: 9781837644049 Format: Paperback	$64.66
This critical edition of a late-medieval English ‘rule’ for male anchorites is a timely intervention in – and stimulus... Read More >>

The Jesuits in the United States: A Concise History

The Jesuits in the United States: A Concise History...
Author: David J. Collins ISBN: 9781647123482 Format: Hardback	$54.99
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The Letters of Adam of Perseigne

The Letters of Adam of Perseigne
Author: Adam Of Perseigne , Thomas Merton, OCSO ISBN: 9780879071967 Format: Paperback	$79.07
Abbot of the Cistercian monastery at Perseigne, Adam was a 'director of souls' in the late twelfth century. By his... Read More >>

Contemporary Monastic Economy: A Sociological Perspective Across Continents

Contemporary Monastic Economy: A Sociological Perspective...
Author: Isabelle Jonveaux (University of Linz, Austria) ISBN: 9781032073361 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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Der Jansenismus im deutschsprachigen Raum, 1670–1789: Bücher, Bilder, Bibliotheken

Der Jansenismus im deutschsprachigen Raum, 1670–1789:...
Author: Christoph Schmitt-Maaß ISBN: 9783110796957 Format: Hardback	$154.35
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Monchwerden in Alter Kirche Und Christlichem Osten: Kolner Kolloquium Zur Initiatio Monastica

Monchwerden in Alter Kirche Und Christlichem Osten:...
Author: Brakmann Heinzgerd , Tinatin Chronz ISBN: 9783402110638 Format: Paperback	$176.88
Das Monchtum in seinen verschiedenen Auspragungen gehort seit der Alten Kirche zu den grundlegenden Lebensformen... Read More >>

Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling towards God

Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century...
Author: Lauren Mancia (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) ISBN: 9781641893121 Format: Hardback	$250.80
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Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities

Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000...
Author: Julie Hotchin , Jirki Thibaut ISBN: 9781837650491 Format: Hardback	$245.81
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Grief on the Road to Emmaus: A Monastic Approach to Journeying with the Bereaved

Grief on the Road to Emmaus: A Monastic Approach to...
Author: Beth L Hewett ISBN: 9780814668047 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community

Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community...
Author: William Jankowiak ISBN: 9780231150217 Format: Paperback	$49.95
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Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community

Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community...
Author: William Jankowiak ISBN: 9780231150200 Format: Hardback	$198.95
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women... Read More >>

Loving Jesus: Monastery Talks on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew

Loving Jesus: Monastery Talks on the Gospel According...
Author: Mark A. Scott, OCSO ISBN: 9780879070656 Format: Paperback	$92.27
"""Originally given as Monastery Talks to his confreres, Mark A. Scott, OCSO, presents these commentaries to ecclesial... Read More >>

A Benedictine Reader: 1530–1930

A Benedictine Reader: 1530–1930
Author: Hugh B. Feiss, OSB , Maureen M. O�Brien ISBN: 9780879071691 Format: Paperback	$131.87
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The Capital's Charterhouses and the Record of English Carthusianism

The Capital's Charterhouses and the Record of English...
Author: Julian Luxford ISBN: 9780888448361 Format: Hardback	$250.80
"The Capital's Charterhouses and the Record of English Carthusianism offers a substantial and versatile contribution... Read More >>

Cardinal Schuster's Commentary on the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict

Cardinal Schuster's Commentary on the Holy Rule of Saint...
Author: Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster ISBN: 9781621388999 Format: Paperback	$60.59
Cardinal Schuster's commentary on the Holy Rule of St Benedict of Nursia was first published in Italian at the end... Read More >>

Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/suitable for Divine Service?

Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/suitable...
Author: Ninon Dubourg ISBN: 9789463721561 Format: Hardback	$403.92
The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition... Read More >>

A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life

A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life
Author: Zena Hitz (St John's College, Annapolis) ISBN: 9781108995016 Format: Paperback	$25.85
Sequestered monastic communities have always been a part of the global Christian landscape. What calls a person... Read More >>

The Transformation of Religious Orders in Central and Eastern Europe: Sociological Insights

The Transformation of Religious Orders in Central and...
Author: Stefania Palmisano (University of Turin, Italy) , Isabelle Jonveaux (University of Linz, Austria) ISBN: 9780367757090 Format: Paperback	$79.99
The first volume to explore various facets of contemporary change in consecrated religious life in selected central... Read More >>

The Templars: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order

The Templars: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military...
Author: Jochen Burgtorf (California State University, Fullerton, USA) , Shlomo Lotan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) ISBN: 9780367756765 Format: Paperback	$79.99
This book recounts and analyzes the Templars' rise and establishment during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries,... Read More >>

Medieval Exempla in Transition: Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum and Its Readers

Medieval Exempla in Transition: Caesarius of Heisterbach’s...
Author: Victoria Smirnova ISBN: 9780879071301 Format: Paperback	$92.27
""This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219-1223),... Read More >>

Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam

Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam
Author: Bradley Bowman ISBN: 9781474479691 Format: Paperback	$67.25
During the rise of Islam, Muslim fascination with Christian monastic life was articulated through a fluid, piety-centred... Read More >>

Cardinal Schuster's Commentary on the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict

Cardinal Schuster's Commentary on the Holy Rule of Saint...
Author: Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster ISBN: 9781621389002 Format: Hardback	$84.48
Cardinal Schuster's commentary on the Holy Rule of St Benedict of Nursia was first published in Italian at the end... Read More >>

The Vowed Life: The promise and demand of baptism

The Vowed Life: The promise and demand of baptism
Author: Matthew Bullimore , Sarah Coakley ISBN: 9781786221896 Format: Paperback	$51.72
The Vowed Life reflects on a paradox in the Church today. Vows are simultaneously alluring and unappealing: lay... Read More >>

What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries

What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English...
Author: David N. Bell ISBN: 9780879072070 Format: Paperback	$131.87
The literacy and education of medieval nuns has been a subject of dispute and study in recent years. In his third... Read More >>

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