Category: Desert Tradition

Athletes of Prayer: The monastic tradition, rooted in the lives and writings of the Desert Fathers and the Benedictine Rule, was the great birthplace and laboratory for much later Christian spirituality and liturgical development. Antony, Benedict, John Moschus, John Climacus, Cyril of Scythopolis, and Dorotheus of Gaza are only a few of the monastic fathers and saints represented here.

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The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality

By: Greg Peters

Price: $24.99

Publisher: Baker Academic: November 2018

Seller ID:: 166069

ISBN: 080109805X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality

By: Greg Peters

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Baker Academic: August 2015

Seller ID:: 172200

ISBN: 0801048915

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Light cover wear, firm binding, lots of marginal marks in the text, page notations on first free endpaper, remainder marked on bottom textblock edge. Top corner bumped.
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Peter of Damascus: Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (Studies and Texts)

By: Greg Peters

Price: $89.95

Publisher: PIMS: September 2011

Seller ID:: 132209

ISBN: 0888441754

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

There are countless under-studied or ignored authors from the Byzantine Empire awaiting scholarly attention. In the area of Byzantine spirituality the twelfth century as a whole has received little consideration, primarily owing to the perceived lack of any significant or noteworthy author. While the tenth-century mystic Symeon the New Theologian and the fourteenth-century hesychast Gregory Palamas have been the focus of much academic industry, little serious attention is paid to figures from the intervening centuries. Recognizing that literature on monasticism and empire in the twelfth centur...
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Desert Fathers : Translations from the Latin

By: HELEN WADDELL

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Random House Inc: May 1998

Seller ID:: 160673

ISBN: 0375700196

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Waddell's selection and translation, first published in 1936, has become a minor classic in its own right. It includes material from Jerome's 'Life of St. Paul,' The History of the Monks of Egypt,several collections of Sayings of the Fathers, and selections from Cassian, Palladius, John Moschus, and more. Preface by M. Basil Pennington.
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Eternal Wisdom from the Desert : Writings from the Desert Fathers

By: HENRY L. CARRIGAN

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Paraclete Pr: October 2001

Seller ID:: 20081013148281

ISBN: 1557252831

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In the fourth century, thousands of men and women fled into the Egyptian desert seeking to recapture the passion of the earliest Christians through lives of prayer and solitude. As records of the wisdom and purity of the "desert fathers and mothers" spread through the Roman Empire, Christians streamed to the caves of these desert hermits, seeking counsel on the interior life. The hermits' ascetic practices and wise words were a shining witness to a living faith that could be woven into the fabric of daily life. This volume contains Athanasius' famous "The Life of St. Anthony," St. Jero...
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Hours on Sinai

By: IOANNA TSATSOU

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press: July 1984

Seller ID:: 20090209152988

ISBN: 0917653009

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

As new.
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Desert Father: A Journey in the Wilderness with Saint Anthony

By: James Cowan

Price: $18.95

Publisher: New Seeds: May 2006

Seller ID:: 91428

ISBN: 1590302370

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The spiritual exploits of Saint Anthony the Great--the prototype of the Christian "Desert Father"--have been immortalized in stories and art since the fourth century. Here is the stunning account of a modern seeker's quest to get beneath the legends that surround Anthony and to determine whether his extreme way of life has something to offer people in today's world. James Cowan's quest takes him to Egypt, to the monastery that still exists near the site of Anthony's hermitage, where he meets the monk who becomes his guide and mentor on the journey. He comes to regard Anthony and the col...
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The Cistercians in Scandinavia (Cistercian Studies Series 101)

By: James France

Price: $42.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications: October 1992

Seller ID:: 148692

ISBN: 0879078316

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Book itself is New. Jacket shows wear and tears along top edge and bottom corner near spine, and severe significant fading to spine and edges. Text pristine.
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Peter the Venerable: Selected Letters (Toronto medieval Latin texts)

By: Janet Martin

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Pontifical Inst of Medieval: June 1974

Seller ID:: 20070917122765

ISBN: 0888444524

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Three Founders of Citeaux (Cistercian Studies 176)

By: Jean-Baptiste Van Damme, Bede K. Lackner

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Liturgical Press: January 2006

Seller ID:: 20101005178959

ISBN: 0879078766

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza

By: JENNIFER L. HEVELONE-HARPER

Price: $39.95

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: June 2005

Seller ID:: 20070607108416

ISBN: 0801881102

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

On the periphery of the Roman empire, the sixth-century desert city of Gaza served as a crossroads between Palestine and Egypt. The nearby village of Tawatha was home to the thriving monastery of Abbot Seridos and the renowned anchorites Barsanuphius, known to the people as the Great Old Man, and his disciple John. The laity of the area looked to the monks for spiritual leadership, as did their brother monks, bishops, and religious leaders from as far away as Jerusalem and Constantinople. Having adopted a life of physical isolation, the monks communicated with others by letters, offering gu...
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Evagrius and His Legacy

By: Joel Kalvesmaki, Robin Darling Young

Price: $39.00

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press: October 2015

Seller ID:: 126175

ISBN: 0268033293

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Book of Mystical Chapters : Meditations on the Souls Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives

By: JOHN ANTHONY MCGUCKIN

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Random House Inc: July 2003

Seller ID:: 162809

ISBN: 1590300076

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A beautiful instruction. Simple, and at the same time difficult, each page a poetry to live through. Every line given (and subsequently written) by a desert father to his fellow monks with the intention of it being ''learned by heart and meditated on over and over again for a day or even a week until the paragraph [has] broken like a fruit on the tongue... and revealed its inner flavor to the searching mind.'' Patristic scholar John McGuckin has edited and translated these sayings into three ''centuries,'' or books - Praktikos, Theoretikos and Gnostikos - following the tradition of monastic sp...
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Book of Mystical Chapters : Meditations on the Souls Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives

By: JOHN ANTHONY MCGUCKIN

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Random House Inc: July 2003

Seller ID:: 166104

ISBN: 1590300076

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Abba Isaiah of Scetis

By: JOHN CHRYSSAYGIS, PACHOMIOS ROBERT PENKETT

Price: $38.95

Publisher: Cistercian Abbey of Spencer Inc: December 2002

Seller ID:: 146732

ISBN: 0879077506

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Written in the fifth century, during one of the most formative periods of christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine, the Ascetic Discourses show a strong influence of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and of earlier monastic writers. They are marked by a faithfulness to tradition, yet equally by a note of originality distinctive to the Gaza region. Abba Isaiah has set forth a practical guide for monks, ever aware of the challenges that interpersonal relationships present within monastic communities. Functionality, however, does not overwhelm Isaiah's emphasis of the intimate nature of the r...
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