Category: Desert Tradition

Although the institution of monasticism has existed in the Christian church since the first century, it is often misunderstood. Greg Peters, an expert in monastic studies, reintroduces historic monasticism to the Protestant church, articulating a monastic spirituality for all believers.As Peters explains, what we have known as monasticism for the past 1,500 years is actually a modified version of the earliest monastic life, which was not necessarily characterized by poverty, chastity, and obedience but rather by one's single-minded focus on God--a single-mindedness rooted in one's baptismal vo...
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The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality

By: Peters, Greg

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Baker Academic : August 2015

Seller ID: 149449

ISBN-13: 9780801048913

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Some evangelicals perceive monasticism as a relic from the past, a retreat from the world, or a shirking of the call to the Great Commission. At the same time, contemporary evangelical spirituality desires historical Christian manifestations of the faith. In this accessibly written book Greg Peters, an expert in monastic studies who is a Benedictine oblate and spiritual director, offers a historical survey of monasticism from its origins to current manifestations. Peters recovers the riches of the monastic tradition for contemporary spiritual formation and devotional practice, explaining why t...
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Handmaids of the Lord : Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries

By: PETERSEN, JOAN M., PETERSON, JOAN M.

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Cistercian Abbey of Spencer Inc : May 1996

Seller ID: 187741

ISBN-13: 9780879077433

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Throughout the christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models 'Macrina, the two Palas and Melanias, Radagunde 'and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of their austerities, their aspirations, and their relationship with the Church and the world, not least with male authority figures.

No End to the Search: Experiencing Monastic Life (Monastic Wisdom Series)

By: Plaiss, Mark

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : August 2017

Seller ID: 167313

ISBN-13: 9780879071509

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Like New but for remainder mark on bottom textblock edge. Text pristine.
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The Praktikos and Chapters on Prayer

By: PONTICUS, EVAGRIUS, BAMBERGER (TRANSLATOR), JOHN EUDES

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : June 1980

Seller ID: 185510

ISBN-13: 9780879079048

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Evagrius (d. 399), though eventually condemned as an Origenist, was a good friend of Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa; his very practical mysticism influenced other great figures in the ascetical tradition including Maximus the Confessor, John Climacus, John Cassian, Dionysius, and Symeon the New Theologian, and, in the West, John of the Cross. He was the first to systematize the spirituality of the desert, and his ''eight thoughts'' (including acedia, the ''demon of noonday'') eventually found their way into the more familiar Western form known as the seven deadly sins. A tex...
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The Praktikos and Chapters on Prayer

By: PONTICUS, EVAGRIUS, BAMBERGER (TRANSLATOR), JOHN EUDES

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : June 1980

Seller ID: 186468

ISBN-13: 9780879079048

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Evagrius (d. 399), though eventually condemned as an Origenist, was a good friend of Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa; his very practical mysticism influenced other great figures in the ascetical tradition including Maximus the Confessor, John Climacus, John Cassian, Dionysius, and Symeon the New Theologian, and, in the West, John of the Cross. He was the first to systematize the spirituality of the desert, and his ''eight thoughts'' (including acedia, the ''demon of noonday'') eventually found their way into the more familiar Western form known as the seven deadly sins. A tex...
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The Praktikos and Chapters on Prayer

By: PONTICUS, EVAGRIUS, BAMBERGER (TRANSLATOR), JOHN EUDES

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : June 1980

Seller ID: 186936

ISBN-13: 9780879079048

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Evagrius (d. 399), though eventually condemned as an Origenist, was a good friend of Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa; his very practical mysticism influenced other great figures in the ascetical tradition including Maximus the Confessor, John Climacus, John Cassian, Dionysius, and Symeon the New Theologian, and, in the West, John of the Cross. He was the first to systematize the spirituality of the desert, and his ''eight thoughts'' (including acedia, the ''demon of noonday'') eventually found their way into the more familiar Western form known as the seven deadly sins. A tex...
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Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love: Benedict's Way of Love, 2nd Edition

By: Pratt, Lonni Collins, Daniel, Father Homan

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Paraclete Press : June 2011

Seller ID: 191899

ISBN-13: 9781557258915

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

For readers of "The Benedict Option", here is another invaluable collection of Benedictine wisdom to live by. Today's culture is increasingly hostile and suspicious toward anyone who appears to be different--especially when tragedy strikes. Our instinct is to bolt our doors and protect the ones we love. But deep within the heart of Benedictine spirituality lies a remedy to hatred, fear, and suspicion: hospitality. At once deeply comforting and sharply challenging, true Benedictine hospitality requires that we welcome the stranger, not only into our homes, but into our hearts. With warmth and h...
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Benedict's Way: An Ancient Monk's Insights for a Balanced Life

By: Pratt, Lonni Collins,Homan, Daniel

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Loyola Pr : April 2000

Seller ID: 199032

ISBN-13: 9780829413762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

As new, in as new jacket
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Meteora: History of the Monasteries and Monasticism

By: Provatakis-Theocharis, M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Michalis Toumpis : March 2006

Seller ID: 206217

ISBN-13: 9789605400958

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Moderate cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text. Cover image varies completely from that shown.
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The Day-To-Day Life of the Desert Fathers in Fourth-Century Egypt

By: REGNAULT, LUCIEN, POIRIER, ETIENNE

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Fordham University Press : April 2000

Seller ID: 206967

ISBN-13: 9781879007345

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Fourth century Egypt is the classical focus for study of monasticism. Derwas Chitty's The Desert: A City gives us the eagle's eye view of that incomparable era; the book we now have in our hands gives us the worm's eye view. The author has culled the literally thousands of sayings of the Fathers, and other essential texts such as Cassian's, Palladius's, in order to lay out the mundane contours of this epitome of all arenas of spiritual warfare. What did the monks eat? What did they wear? What were their cells made of? What were their daily itineraries? There are chapters on welcoming visitors,...
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The Saint Benedict Prayer Book

By: Riyeff, Jacob

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Paraclete Press : July 2021

Seller ID: 191907

ISBN-13: 9781640606241

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Spiritual Wisdom of the Syriac Book of Steps

By: Robert A. Kitchen

Price: $12.95

Publisher: SLG Press : January 2013

Seller ID: 184688

ISBN-13: 9780728302389

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

49-page book, NOT a Kindle.
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The Spiritual Wisdom of the Syriac Book of Steps

By: Robert A. Kitchen

Price: $12.95

Publisher: SLG Press : January 2013

Seller ID: 213822

ISBN-13: 9780728302389

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Holy Land

By: Roberts, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Terra Sancta Arts : October 1988

Seller ID: 136577

ISBN-13: 9789652600011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Book itself almost like new, apart from slight damage at top corner of front cover. Binding and text pristine. Jacket shows several tears along top edges, both front and rear.
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School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism

By: Rutba House

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Cascade Books : January 2005

Seller ID: 20081217151313

ISBN-13: 9781597520553

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

'At the end of his book, After Virtue, Alistair MacIntyre hints at a new kind of monasticism: ''What matters...is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.'' The editors of this book--members of an intentional Christian community in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Durham, North Carolina--have compiled twelve essays in an attempt to discern the marks of a new monasticism that will guide these burgeoning communities in faithful, consistent witness. Taking the Rul...
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