The Desert Fathers, Paperback - Helen Waddell

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

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

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

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

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. 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. '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...

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. The great classic work, A Course in Miracles, is devoted to teachings about who we are, our relationships to God and with each other, and the actua...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Helene CuvignyIllustration(s): 5 color maps; 2 b/w maps; 1 color plan; 4 b/w plans; 35 color images;...

What kind of man kills his own family? A gripping, tender novel about fathers and sonsIllustrations: NA

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Bufnitele sunt foarte ganditoare de felul lor. Chiar si puii de bufnita, cum sunt Nana, Nanu si Nic, se gandesc noaptea, in padure, la multe lucrur...

The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military...

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...

New edition of this picture book about a hot and bothered pig. The full colour illustrations are by Jill Barton.

Reducere. Pigs don't swim, or so it's said. But on one of the hottest days of the summer, the pig on Neligan's farm sits by the pond feeling envious of the d...

Reducere. The pig's in the pond The pig's in the pond At Neligan's farmthe pig's in the pondNeligan's pig knows that pigs don't swim. But on one of the hotte...

DescriptionThe name "Apostolic Fathers" was first applied in 1672 to a group of five writers who were taken either to have been in touch directly w...

Reducere. DescriptionSeattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New ...