Category: Desert Tradition

The Rule of Benedict for Beginners: Spirituality for Daily Life

By: Derkse, Wil

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Liturgical Press : January 2003

Seller ID: 207019

ISBN-13: 9780814628027

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Benedictine spirituality is simple and down to earth. Not only does the Benedictine lifestyle fit well within the walls of the monastery, its interpretation of life is also suitable to other forms of society. In The Rule of Benedict for Beginners, Wil Derkse reveals how elements from Benedictine spirituality and the Benedictine lifestyle may be fruitful outside the monastery to strengthen the quality of societal living and working.The Rule of Benedict for Beginners is a useful source of life orientation and lifestyle for those interested in living by the Rule. It applies the monastic vows to l...
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Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims: Ascetic Travel in the Mediterranean World, A.D. 300?800

By: Dietz, Maribel

Price: $33.95

Publisher: Penn State University Press : November 2011

Seller ID: 211110

ISBN-13: 9780271052106

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Religious travelers were a common sight in the Mediterranean world during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In fact, as Maribel Dietz finds in Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims, this formative period in the history of Christianity witnessed an explosion of travel, as both men and women took to the roads, seeking spiritual meaning in a life of itinerancy.Much of this early Christian religious travel was not focused on a particular holy place, as in the pilgrimage of later centuries to Rome, Jerusalem, and Santiago de Compostela. Rather, the inspiration was more practical. Travel wa...
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Elder Arsenios the Cave ? dweller (1886 ? 1983): Fellow ascetic of Elder Joseph the Hesychast

By: Dionysiatis, Monk Joseph

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Lulu.com : October 2020

Seller ID: 220404

ISBN-13: 9781716935367

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

I must confess that for Elder Arsenios, the Gospel words, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no guile "are relevant. He was naturally straight-forward, simple, offenceless, meek, obedient; a rare struggler, who possessed nothing. For Elder Arsenios, his yes was always yes, and his no, no. He never harboured resentment, no matter how he was wronged. He never got angry; he never hurt anyone. He lived obedience with precision. That is why, through obedience and his unwavering faith in his Elder, he lived in a way that surpassed the laws of nature. During vigils, he began the night labou...
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The Lives of Simeon Stylites (Cistercian Studies Series)

By: DORAN, ROBERT

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : June 2006

Seller ID: 218502

ISBN-13: 9780879075125

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Of all the pioneers of asceticism in the ancient world, the stylites have drawn the most puzzled attention-not to say derision-from their modern observers. Sitting atop high pillars, exposed to the elements (much can be left to the imagination here) and dependent upon disciples for what little nourishment they received, they seem to exhibit a species of peculiar self-torture rather than ascetic discipline. The discerning interlocutor, however, might grow to affirm Susan Harvey's eloquent alternative interpretation of their sufferings: 'Simeon's body bore the truth of the world he saw: the su...
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Works of Asceticism of Abba Dorotheos

By: Dorotheos, Abba

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Australia, Monastery of the Virgin Mary : 2022

Seller ID: 205660

ISBN: 281BYM1026464

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Trappist: Living in the Land of Desire

By: Downey, Michael

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Paulist Press : January 1997

Seller ID: 208475

ISBN-13: 9780809104918

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

As new copy in edgeworn jacket.
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Steps to Spiritual Perfection: Studies on Spiritual Progress in Evagrius Ponticus

By: DRISCOLL, JEREMY

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Paulist Press : November 2005

Seller ID: 179392

ISBN-13: 9780809142644

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Jeremy Driscoll assembles the fruit of ten years wrestling with Evagrius in Steps to Spiritual Perfection: Studies in Spiritual Progress in Evagrius Ponticus. A collection of previously published journal articles and book chapters ('Why Read Evagrius,' 'Spiritual Progress in the Works of Evagrius Ponticus,' 'Spousal Images,' 'Penthos and Tears,' 'The Evil Thought 'Love of Money,'' 'Apatheia and Purity of Heart,' et al), these Evagrian studies 'show the ways by which the discourse provokes an interior movement in the fallen mind and guides it through the tortuous journey of recovering original...
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The Gateway to the Middle Ages: Monasticism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

By: DUCKETT, ELEANOR SHIPLEY

Price: $24.95

Publisher: University of Michigan Press : February 1989

Seller ID: 20100111167088

ISBN-13: 9780472060511

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In an era when the sounds of monasticism's interior life speak to a new generation, Eleanor Shipley Duckett offers an illuminated description of its development under such figures as Columban, the saint afire with Irish enthusiam; St. Benedict, greatest of the monks, who established a pattern of the religious life still vibrant to this day; and St. Gregory, Benedict's pupil and greatest of the popes, who more than any other prepared the See of Rome for its triumphant emergence in the Middle Ages.Professor Duckett writes a history of this period that is as full of intellectual excitement as tho...
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The Gateway to the Middle Ages: Monasticism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

By: DUCKETT, ELEANOR SHIPLEY

Price: $7.75

Publisher: University of Michigan Press : February 1989

Seller ID: 220430

ISBN-13: 9780472060511

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Covers creased, owner name, contents appear pristine.
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The Rule of the Master (Cistercian Studies 6)

By: EBERLE, LUKE

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : January 1977

Seller ID: 172847

ISBN-13: 9780879079062

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The lengthiest and most detailed of all ancient monastic rules, the Rule of the Master originates from approximately the same time period and place as St. Benedict's Rule (ca. early sixth century), and in fact may have been a source relied upon by St. Benedict. Its importance is obviously huge and, up till now, just as obviously underappreciated. This translation remedies the latter condition. Following extensive introductory material, the smooth English rendition of the Latin text reveals an outline of monastic life that neglects nothing: lofty spiritual instruction is followed by a descripti...
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Readings in Redemptorist Spirituality, Volume 3

By: Editor,

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Permanent Commission for Redemptorist Spirituality : January 1990

Seller ID: 200704

ISBN: B00I2AZI3O

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Bright, sharp covers, spine end bumped, score mark on fore edged, contents pristine, crisp binding.
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The Art of Salvation

By: Elder Ephraim

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Saint Nektarios Greek Orthodox Monastery : January 2014

Seller ID: 208839

ISBN-13: 9780972550444

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Art of Salvation

By: Elder Ephraim

Price: $44.00

Publisher: Saint Nektarios Greek Orthodox Monastery : January 2014

Seller ID: 213419

ISBN-13: 9780972550444

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

As new. sharp & bright.
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Following the Footsteps of the Invisible: The Complete Works of Diadochus of Photike (Cistercian Studies - Cistercian Publications) (Cistercian Studies Series)

By: Ermatinger, Cliff

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Liturgical Press : October 2010

Seller ID: 163838

ISBN-13: 9780879072391

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Fifth-century Christianity was a theological battlefield. With the Messalian heretics and their experientialist spirituality on the one side and the intellectualist school on the other, representatives of both extremes found themselves condemned by the Church. In this milieu of subjectivist notions of grace and negative anthropology, there appeared a true mystic, Diadochus, Bishop of Photike in Epiros. His is a theology whose two poles are God's grace and man's ability to cooperate with it by way of discernment of spirits. Diadochus's ability to salvage what was orthodox from the Messalians an...
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Following the Footsteps of the Invisible: The Complete Works of Diadochus of Photike (Cistercian Studies - Cistercian Publications) (Cistercian Studies Series)

By: Ermatinger, Cliff

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Liturgical Press : October 2010

Seller ID: 167329

ISBN-13: 9780879072391

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

New copy, but has suffered rough handling in Publisher warehouse. Light cover wear includes diagonal crease at top left corner of front cover. Binding firm, text pristine.
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I Am a Daughter of the Church and I Want to See God: A Practical Synthesis of Carmelite Spirituality Complete Set (2 Vol in 1)

By: Eugene, Marie P.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Christian Classics : June 1986

Seller ID: 162774

ISBN-13: 9780870611346

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

I Want to See God and its companion I am a Daughter of the Church are written works of Father Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, O.C.D. A synthesis of rich doctrinal teachings with the sureness born of a deep contemplative experience, thus offering a vital doctrine to men and women. Bringing to light the dynamics of baptismal grace, Father Marie-Eugene opens up the paths of contemplation and holiness to all, in the midst of ordinary life. Both books illustrate the untiring search for God through time and the need for reliable spiritual Masters.
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Talking Back (Antirrhetikos): A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons (Cistercian Studies)

By: EVAGRIUS of Pontus; PONTICUS, EVAGRIOS; BRAKKE, DAVID

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : September 2009

Seller ID: 218534

ISBN-13: 9780879073299

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Intense conflict with demons, especially in the form of thoughts, lay at the heart of early Egyptian monasticism. 'Opposition from demons,' writes professor of Religious Studies David Brakke, 'provided the resistance that the monk needed to form himself into a person of integrity.' In Talking Back Evagrius couples the thoughts, circumstances, and anxieties the demons use to assail the monk with relevant passages from the Bible that contradict demonic suggestion. Arranged in eight books according to the eight primary demons-gluttony, fornication, love of money, sadness, anger, listlessness, vai...
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The Foundations of Western Monasticism (Tan Classics)

By: Fahey, William Edmund

Price: $18.95

Publisher: TAN Books : February 2013

Seller ID: 203046

ISBN-13: 9780895551993

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

St. Antony of the Desert, St. Benedict of Nursia, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux rise above all other figures in Catholic history as guides. To travel with them and to seek a view upon the heights of their personal holiness and wisdom is to secure passage into the rich and complex world of monasticism. Monasticism distills the essence of Catholic spirituality for all time and for all Christians. The Foundations of Western Monasticism, the latest addition to our TAN Classics, concentrates on three of the finest Christian texts available and will provide both first-time and advanced readers with a...
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