Religious communities & monasticism books

The Life, Doctrine, and Rule of Blessed Paul Giustiniani. On the Landscape of Christian hermit life, Paul Giustiniani...  Read More >>

Upon the recommendation of a Scottish publisher, we are reprinting as a single volume this most critically acclaimed...  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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Try a Little Tenderness might have been a nicer title for this book had the songwriter not claimed it first. Benedictine...  Read More >>

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

The Desert Fathers were Hermits, Ascetics and Monks who lived mainly in the Scetic desert in Egypt, around the third...  Read More >>

Monastic mountains and deserts was the topic of a panel at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies...  Read More >>

Abbot Christopher examines different aspects of happiness and tells what monastic wisdom has to say about them....  Read More >>

Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Alive...  Read More >>

The Penitentes are a lay Catholic brotherhood that practised bloody rites of self-flagellation and crucifixion....  Read More >>

A seven-volume set on the history of monasticism in the western work. It covers the monastic movement from its precursors...  Read More >>

A seven-volume set on the history of monasticism in the western work. It covers the monastic movement from its precursors...  Read More >>

A seven-volume set that covers the monastic movement from its precursors to the period of the Venerable Bede. It...  Read More >>

Covering the monastic movement from its precursors to the period of the Venerable Bede, this title contains information...  Read More >>

Covering the monastic movement from its precursors to the period of the Venerable Bede, this title contains information...  Read More >>

Covering the monastic movement from its precursors to the period of the Venerable Bede, this title contains information...  Read More >>

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This guidebook features more than 450 places of spiritual retreat in 20- countries, and includes brief descriptions...  Read More >>

Explains the spiritual path taken by a monk. This book explains the exercises necessary to advance successfully...  Read More >>