Christian communities & monasticism books

Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions...  Read More >>

The Garden of Wisdom is a rare Jewish systematic theology, here presented in English translation as well as in the...  Read More >>

The first modern study in English of the life and thought of the ninth-century Byzantine theologian and monastic...  Read More >>

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Through the lens of sensorial experience, Erika Lauren Lindgren explores the spirituality of monastic women as reflected...  Read More >>

At the dividing line between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, scholar-diplomat-pastor-writer-pope Gregory the Great...  Read More >>

Includes eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum...  Read More >>

Separated by schism from Greek and Latin Christians and under Arab-Islamic suzerainty, the Church of Egypt produced...  Read More >>

The living link through whom the ascetic principles of hellenistic philosophers passed into monasticism, Evagrius...  Read More >>

Written in the fifth century, during one of the most formative periods of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine,...  Read More >>

Far from the Christian metropolis of Alexandria, removed from the well-known and much visited monastic settlements...  Read More >>

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Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike....  Read More >>

The Benedictine abbey of Solesmes in France is famous for the quality of its Gregorian chant, recordings of which...  Read More >>

Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike....  Read More >>

A panorama of Russian Christian spirituality, illustrated with passages from formative works.  Read More >>

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Examines various aspects of Coptic civilization in Wadi al-Natrun. This book focuses on various aspects of the...  Read More >>

Focussing on monasticism, its history, practice, and relevance to contemporary life, this book combines a detailed...  Read More >>

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The latest member of the Order of Friars Preachers is young Joe Mulheron, aka Brother Barnabas - just arrived from...  Read More >>

Here is a lavish pictorial biography of Thomas Merton, the extraordinary Trappist monk whose writings--including...  Read More >>

These studies on the Dominicans or Friars Preachers of medieval Ireland are unique, for no other account of equal...  Read More >>