Monasticism category: 212 books
by Asghar Ali Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Sufism is a very effective means of promoting love & peace . This Volume is collected papers red in one such seminar held in Mumbai some time ago . The papers show that sufis believe in universal love and their love transcends all religious, national,linguistic and ethnic boundaries as their very basic doctrine is sulh-i-kul (total peace, peace with all).
Seeking Life
The Baptismal Invitation of the Rule of St. Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
In Seeking Life: The Baptismal Invitation of the Rule of St. Benedict, renowned author Esther de Waal returns to the Rule of Saint Benedict—the inspiration for Seeking God, her classic book published twenty-five years ago. Here, she focuses on the prologue to the Rule and shows how it contains the...
The Book of the Elders
Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Systematic Collection
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder,"...
The Lives of Monastic Reformers 2
Abbot Vitalis of Savigny, Abbot Godfrey of Savigny, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This volume offers translations of the twelfth-century Latin vitae of four monks of the Monastery of Savigny: Abbot Vitalis, Abbot Godfrey, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo. Founded in 1113 by Vitalis of Mortain, an influential hermit-preacher, Savigny expanded to a congregation of thirty monasteries...
by Hilarion Alfeyev
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
From the Foreword by Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia—
Isaac the Syrian, also called Isaac of Nineveh, lived and wrote during "the golden age of Syriac Christian literature" in the seventh century. Cut off by language and politics from the Churches of the Roman Empire and branded...
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers
Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950-1993
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country. Mario I. Aguilar brings together the histories of the five pioneers of Christian-Hindu dialogue and their involvement with the ashram, to explore...
Monks and Muslims II
Creating Communities of Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
If Christians and Muslims are to live in peace, encouraging one another to grow in holiness and working together for the good of all God's creation, they must move beyond politicized and often negative images of one another. Monastic/Muslim dialogue issuing from friendship and focused on revelation,...
The Sun at Midnight
Monastic Experience of the Christian Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Sun at Midnight offers a splendid, easily accessible summary of mystical theology in the Cistercian school. Bernardo Olivera, a master of both the theology and the practice of the spiritual life, analyzes this tradition first in its rich human, biblical, and doctrinal connotations, and then according...
Saint Bernard's Three Course Banquet
Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De Gradibus
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Saint Bernard’s famous work, The Steps of Humility and Pride (in Latin, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae), is a short book consisting of a mere fifty-seven paragraphs. In it, the Abbot of Clairvaux unpacks the doctrine of the very crucial chapter 7 of Saint Benedict’s sixth-century Rule for...
A Saint in the Sun
Praising Saint Bernard in the France of Louis XIV
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This volume contains translations or summaries of the most important panegyrics in praise of Saint Bernard that were preached during the reign of Louis XIV. Some of the preachers were and are regarded as the greatest orators ever to grace the French pulpit. All the translations are extensively annotated,...
by David N. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
This is an annotated translation of the classic Description de l’abbaye de La Trappe, the most important eye-witness account of life at the abbey of La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rancé. The work includes a map showing the physical layout of the abbey and detailed discussions of the monks’...
The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control
Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book introduces a beautiful fourth-century Coptic discourse on love and self-control in its first English translation. The text’s heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the...
by Clinton R. LeFort
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Preface
Many times it 's hard to capture in words WHAT THE HEART Seeks to Express. Yes, it is such when friends speak to one another. How much more challenging is it to capture the 'WORDS' of the heart, that are many times layered with worldliness accumulated over the years, yet desiring to...
by Chris King
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A resource for individuals and groups wishing to explore the Iona Community's integrated approach to spirituality in the space of four weeks. Each week covers an area of the Community's engagement and the days include a 'community experience', a Bible reading, material for reflection, prayers and thoughts to ponder.