Monasticism category: 212 books
The Way of the Hermit
Interfaith Encounters in Silence and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
At first sight the lives of hermits, living in solitude and committed to a life of prayer and contemplation seems to be a world apart of the active practice of interfaith dialogue. Yet, there is a long tradition of seeking the divine together and thus making a contribution to better mutual understanding...
The Artist's Rule
Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Christine Valters Paintner, author of Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire, invites readers to discover and develop their creative gifts in a spirit of prayer and reflection. This twelve-week course draws on the insights and practices of Benedictine spirituality to explore the interplay between contemplation...
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia
A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of...
In the Valley of Wormwood
Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis-who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton-began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed,...
Bernard of Clairvaux
Theologian of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This book offers a complete study of the doctrine of the cross in the writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Until now, this theologically rich topic has not received the attention it calls for. Anthony Lane analyzes and expounds the doctrine of the cross based on the nearly seven hundred references...
by Notker Wolf OSB, Enrica Rosanna FMA
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Without question, managing people effectively requires strong leadership. Are these leadership qualities easily teachable? What exactly characterizes good leadership qualities? And what are the significant gender differences between masculine and feminine leadership styles?
Abbot Primate Notker...
Thomas Merton
Early Essays, 1947-1952
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
This volume gathers together twelve essays that Thomas Merton wrote for various journals between 1947 and 1952, the years that saw the publication of his best-selling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, his ordination to the priesthood, and his initial appointment as spiritual and intellectual...
Mystagogy
A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Mystagogy: A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita proposes an interpretation of the Pseudo-Dionysian corpus in light of the liturgical and ascetic tradition that defined the author and his audience. Characterized by both striking originality and remarkable fidelity to the patristic and late neoplatonic...
To Prefer Nothing to Christ
The Monastic Mission of the English Benedictine Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Monastic life involves a continual return to the Gospel and this exploration begins on the road to Emmaus, in the company of downhearted disciples who were astonished to discover the Lord in their midst. Inviting the reader to a renewed encounter with the Lord on the road, this book explores the Rule...
The Liturgical Sermons
The Second Clairvaux Collection; Christmas through All Saints
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in The First...
Sant'Anselmo in Rome
College and University; From the Beginnings to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Sant’Anselmo in Rome was founded in 1888 by Pope Leo XIII for the training of Benedictines from all over the world in philosophy and theology. To this day, Sant’Anselmo is characterized by the interplay between the Benedictine College and the university entrusted to it, the Pontificio Ateneo di...
In the School of Prophets
The Formation of Thomas Merton's Prophetic Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The distinctive prophetic quality of Thomas Merton's spirituality, shaped by figures ranging from the Hebrew prophets to Thich Nhat Hanh, emerges from this fresh examination of the works Merton read, responded to, and celebrated in his own writing.
In the School of Prophets examines the final...
Iona
God's Energy
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
An outstanding introduction and guide to the spirituality, concerns and activities of the Iona Community, by a former Leader of the Community. What is it that interests so many people in the work of the Iona Community and draws thousands of visitors each year to the tiny island of Iona? Apart from...
by K.C. Yadav
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1998
There are some questions in history which carry a touch of permanence about them. The partition of india,1947, is arguably one such arguably one such question.A lot of debate has been going on various issues connected with it like,for instance,as to who did it ? How?