The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks, Paperback - Various

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

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

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Kim Haines-EitzenIllustration(s): 7 b/w illus.Number of pages: 168Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

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.

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

The early church fathers have always had a special place in Christian theology. As the first interpreters of the gospel, readers today often find i...

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. "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. 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...

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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...

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. 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...

A source-book of theological and historical passages from the Christian writings of the Post-Nicene and Constantinopolitan eras through St. Jerome....

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...

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A New York Times best-selling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hellPublisher: Yale Univ...

Reducere. This is a book that will never die--one of the great Christian classics. Written with passion and tenderness, it tells the dramatic, true stories o...

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 history of the Sabbath is fascinating: beginning with its origins in the Biblical Old Testament, we are taken through millennia of changing tra...

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual - Rikard Roitto

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

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Reducere. The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of En...

DescriptionFrom the Very Beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on ...

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Reducere. One of the great early Christian writings of the second century, "The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching" is a book all true believers can gl...

Reducere. Explore the impact of each of the early Christian women on the Church, then and now. Their stories will enthrall you. Their writings will inspire y...

Reducere. "Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago."...

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Reducere. "I have had enough of this new Abbot " announced one of the monks at Vicovaro. "Yes, Abbot Benedict thinks we have to be always obeying those rules...

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Gholsons in Early America and Their Connections with the Founding Fathers is the fifth entry in Donna Gholson Cook's well- documented family histor...

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Featuring vibrant full color throughout, the seventh edition of Bart D. Ehrman's highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a...