Theology & Religion
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781607241904
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
A profound mystic, Bernard sought, above all and in all, to be with God and to bring all persons to the experience of God. His Sermons on the Song of Songs are among the most famous and most beautiful examples of medieval scriptural exegesis. In them the modern reader can catch a glimpse of the genius which an entire generation found irresistible.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9781607241966
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
A scholar turned monk, Isaac combined the increasingly technical vocabulary of the cathedral schools with the spiritual tradition of the monastery. Dialectic is here combined with meditative reflection.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 207
ISBN: 9781607241997
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in forty-eight sermons, leaving the task to be finished by John of Ford.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 187
ISBN: 9781607241911
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
A profound mystic, Bernard sought, above all and in all, to be with God and to bring all persons to the experience of God. His Sermons on the Song of Songs are among the most famous and most beautiful examples of medieval scriptural exegesis. In them the modern reader can catch a glimpse of the genius which an entire generation found irresistible.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 146
ISBN: 9781607241935
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
Aelred of Rievaulx was born in the borderlands of Northumbria was raised at the royal court of Scotland. While traveling in King David’s service in 1134, the restless young man visited Rievaulx, a new foundation of the Cistercian monks in Yorkshire. The next day he returned to become a monk, and thirteen years later became abbot.
In this second volume on spiritual friendship, written near the end of his life, Aelred completes his early treatise and shares his mature experience of the love of his companions and the love of God.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 488
ISBN: 9781607241737
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Dar Mardin: Christian Arabic and Syriac Studies from the Middle East
Description:
This volume is a translation into Arabic of the papers and discussions published as part of the Pro-Oriente ecumenical consultation between members of Roman Catholic, Chaldean Catholic, Syro-Malankar, Syrian Orthodox, Maronite, and Assyrian Orthodox Churches, originally published in Vienna in 1994. Many of the papers in this volume are commentaries by members of the various churches represented at the consultation on the joint declaration issued by Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Denha IV. A number of other papers seeks to address the question of whether the Council of Ephesus unites or divides.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9781607241928
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
William of Saint Thierry left all things in his search for God. He left his home in Liège (modern Belgium) to study in France. He left the schools to enter Benedictine monastic life at Rheims.
And late in life he left the Benedictines to enter the most austere, recently founded Cistercian abbey of Signy in the Ardennes forest. What he did not leave was his keen intellect and his vehement love of Truth.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 182
ISBN: 9781607241959
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
This book tells the life of a saint by a saint. Malachy O'Morgair spent his life and considerable energies exhorting, wheedling, badgering, and praying his countrymen back to christian faith and practice. Bernard holds him up in this Life, eulogy, and hymn as a model to bishops.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9781607242000
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
Aelred of Rievaulx possessed a personal charm which drew friends and disciples naturally to him. His own experience of human weakness in a worldly life at the court of King David of Scotland made him sensitive to the doctrine of charity which he found among Cistercian monks. The Mirror of Charity gives us a solid theology of the Cistercian life.
Because the divine nature is love, as the Bible tells us, directing our love to God-love conforms us to the image of God that has been lost through sin. All love, to Aelred, is a participation in God-love that leads us to union.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 99
ISBN: 9781607241973
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
The son of Burgundian nobility, Bernard admitted after years of struggle that humility remained for him the most elusive of the virtues. Yet the uncompromising vehemence of his love for God made him strive for what monastic tradition taught is indispensable to anyone hoping to share God's perfect love.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781607241898
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Description:
Meditation on Christ's humanity and a letter of instruction on a disciplined spiritual life for his sister, epitomize Aelred's gentle spirituality. His pastoral prayer reflects a man conscious that he is accountable to God for the souls of others.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 31
ISBN: 9781607249924
Pub Date: 13 Apr 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Willi Heffening publishes a German translation of two litanies that are preserved only in a Paschal book from the Coptic Church. Heffening also includes an introduction and supplements the translation with critical notes.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 343
ISBN: 9781607249788
Pub Date: 08 Apr 2010
Description:
Using societal patterns of exploitation that are evidenced in agrarian societies from the Bronze Age to modern-day corporate globalization, Re-Reading the Prophets offers a new approach to understanding the hidden contexts behind prophetic complaints against economic injustice in eighth-century Judah.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 87
ISBN: 9781607249283
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Joseph Molitor traces the influence of Byzantine troparia and kontakia (hymns) in the Syriac Melkite tradition as evidenced by several Syriac manuscripts. Molitor provides a thorough introduction and publishes the Syriac text and German translation for the hymns he surveys.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 36
ISBN: 9781607249221
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Anton Baumstark surveys key developments in the Byzantine liturgical rite and attempts to view these developments within the historical circumstances that likely affected or caused them.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 41
ISBN: 9781607249276
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2010
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Odilo Heiming publishes here the Syriac text and German translation of eighty brief Syriac hymns (enjane) that were not included in Jules Jeannin’s Mélodies liturgiques syriennes et chaldéennes.