Monasticism category: 212 books
Monastic Reform as Process
Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900–1100
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform and predictable. Medieval commentators and modern scholars have observed how monasteries of the tenth to early twelfth centuries experienced long periods of stasis alternating with bursts of rapid development...
The Intentional Christian Community Handbook: For Idealists, Hypocrites, and Wannabe Disciples of Jesus
For Idealists, Hypocrites, and Wannabe Disciples of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Forward by Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove In the 21st century, Spirit-energized people of all ages are searching for a new (yet ancient) way of life together. A new generation of intentional communities is emerging with inspiring stories to tell of discoveries and struggles as they...
by Naaman Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Maronite Church is one of twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope of Rome. Her patriarch is in Lebanon. Forty-three bishops and approximately five million faithful make up her presence throughout the world.
The story of Maron, a fifth-century hermit-priest, and the...
Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery
Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2002
This book depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 CE. During this period, the monastery was headed by a monk named Shenoute; thirteen of his letters to the women under his care survive. These writings are fragmentary, only partially translated,...
The Daoist Monastic Manual
A Translation of the Fengdao Kejie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
The Fengdao kejie or "Rules and Precepts for Worshiping the Dao" dates from the early seventh century and is a key text of medieval Daoist priesthood and monasticism, which was first formally organized in the sixth century. Compiled to serve the needs of both monastic practitioners and priests in...
The Word in the Desert
Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1993
The growing scholarly attention in recent years to the religious world of late antiquity has focused new attention on the quest for holiness by the strange, compelling, often obscure early Christian monks known as the desert fathers. Yet until now, little attention has been given to one of the most...
Rb 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict
In Latin and English with Notes
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
For fifteen centuries, Benedictine monasticism has been governed by a Rule that is at once strong enough to instill order and yet flexible enough to have relevance fifteen hundred years later. Unabridged Edition
Useful Servanthood
A Study of Spiritual Formation in the Writings of Abba Ammonas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Useful Servanthood introduces English-speaking readers to Abba Ammonas, disciple and successor of Saint Antony of the Desert and a prominent figure of fourth-century Egyptian monasticism. As a director of souls, Ammonas's approach to spiritual formation was a creative example of the spiritual gift...
by John Wortley, Palladius of Aspuna
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Born in Galatia in the 360s, Palladius enrolled as a monk on the Mount of Olives in his early twenties. As a monk, he traveled to Alexandria, the desert of Nitria, the Cells, Palestine, Rome, and the Thebaid. During his travels he encountered Rufinus of Aquileia, Melania the Elder, the hermit Dorotheos,...
Reclaiming Humility
Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Does humility have a place in contemporary life? Were Enlightenment thinkers wrong to reject humility as a “monkish virtue” (Hume) arising from a “slave morality” (Nietzsche)? Australian theologian Jane Foulcher recovers the counter-cultural reading of humility that marked early Christianity...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
During the “Silver Age” of the Cistercians (the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries), pseudepigraphical compositions bearing the name Bernard flourished. Important for the history of monasticism and, more broadly, of Christian spiritual formation and practice, these little-studied writings interpret,...
No End to the Search
Experiencing Monastic Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
A monastery is not just for monks. Laypeople enjoy visiting monasteries and learning from the women and men who live there. The silence of the monastery is a retreat from the clatter and bluster of city and suburb. In No End to the Search Mark Plaiss, married with a wife, children, and grandchildren,...
Christian Monks on Chinese Soil
A History of Monastic Missions to China
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
The contribution of monks to the evangelization of lands not yet reached by the preaching of the Gospel has certainly been remarkable. The specific witness that the monastic community gives is of a radical Christian life naturally radiating outward, and thus it is implicitly missionary. The process...
by Peter Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Out of the organised chaos of a radio station newsroom and into the silence of an austere Trappist monastery. In The Abbot’s Shoes Peter recounts his journey and brings into our view the hidden day-to-day life within an enclosed contemplative community. Now almost 50 years later (after careers as...