Desert Wisdom: Sayings from the Desert Fathers, Paperback - Yushi Nomura

Reducere. "As he was dying, Abba Benjamin taught his sons this: Do this, and you'll be saved: Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give ...

Reducere. The wisdom of the desert fathers and mothers lies in their experiences of solitude, prayer, community life, work, and care for their neighbors. The...

Reducere. Timeless and contemplative sayings from the earliest Christian sages of desert spirituality can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.The de...

The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalized ...

Reducere. 'Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century w...

Reducere. The Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks of early history had deep insight into the nature and aspirations of humankind. Drawing on their experie...

Reducere. The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremiti...

Reducere. DescriptionLent is a desert. We enter this wilderness once a year, seeking the God who dwells in dry, silent places. In this little book, Thomas Mc...

Reducere. Gregory Mayers presents this ancient thought and lifestyle by introducing traditional Wisdom Stories in which characters, actions, and sayings addr...

Reducere. By the fourth century A.D., devout Christians--men and women alike--had begun to retreat from cities and villages to the deserts of North Africa an...

Reducere. An accessible introduction exploring how the earliest Christian monks lived and taught in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth to the seventh centuri...

Reducere. In the fourth century, thousands of men and women fled into the Egyptian desert seeking to recapture the passion of the earliest Christians through...

The life and wisdom of the desert fathers and mothers is not only retained in historical volumes, but has been a constant presence throughout the d...

Reducere. "Seek for meetings with holy men and women." These words from fifth-century bishop Palladius ring as true today as they did 1600 years ago. Palladi...

Reducere. For nearly 2, 000 years, Christian mystics, martyrs, and sages have documented their search for the divine. Their writings have bestowed boundless ...

Reducere. The early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age--fleeing the security of civilization for the deser...

Reducere. Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Neil Douglas-KlotzPart oracle, part meditation book, and part Aladdin's cave of Middle Eastern myth and sacred story, Deser...

In the late third century, more and more people withdrew to the radical seclusion of the desert so as to live entirely for God under the direction ...

Reducere. In Desert Daughters, Desert Sons, professor Rachel Wheeler argues that a new reading of the texts of the Christian desert tradition is needed to pr...

Reducere. "On the long road it's good to have Nouwen and his divining rod. Deftly he bends toward the drop of spiritual wisdom caked in the most ordinary thi...

Reducere. The hermits of Screte who turned their backs on a corrupt society remarkably like our own had much in common with the Zen masters of China and Japa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): The Rev. Dr John (Office of Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Affairs of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of ...

A British expatriate's memoirs of living in Saudi ArabiaPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Stuart CrockerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2...

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Povestea a trei dansatori travestiti care infrunta uriasa si necizelata parte centrala a Australiei.

Reducere. Help your child to identify desert animals through a coloring activity. Learning through coloring is one of the most effective means of information...

Reducere. The Desert is Luke Mehall's fifth and final offering in his series of dirtbag climbing books. The book begins with Mehall's first trip to The Deser...

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border. In the...

Reducere. In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper int...

Publisher: Columba BooksAuthor(s): Hugh MacMahonNumber of pages: 212Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

A lavishly illustrated volume of Pakistani textiles of extraordinary colour and vibrancy from one of the most arid areas on Earth.

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary IrishNewcomers to the Southwest usually find that their favorite landscape plants aren't suited to the hot, dry climat...

Reducere. "Trouble I asked for. Trouble I owed. Trouble I'm glad I had."This is Hanaway speaking. Hanaway-a new kind of hero for the Old West. A big man with...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Rubina (Professor of Classical Archaeology, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Aarhus University,...

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Reducere. For almost 40 years, The Anza-Borrego Desert Region has been the most comprehensive guidebook for Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (ABDSP), Ocotillo ...

Cycling Home from Siberia author Rob Lilwall's unique adventure through freezing China from Mongolia to Hong Kong - this time on foot.Publisher: Ho...