Penthos

Author : Columba Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195134842
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cassian the Monk written by Columba Stewart and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the life, monastic writings, and spiritual theology of John Cassian (c., 360-435). His Institutes and Conferences are a remarkable synthesis of earlier monastic traditions, especially those of fourth-century Egypt, informed throughout by Cassian's awareness of the particular needs of the Latin monastic movement he was helping to shape. Sometimes portrayed as simply an advocate of the sophisticated spiritual theology of Evagrius of Ponticus (360-435), Cassian was actually a theologian of keen insight, realism, and creativity. His teaching on sexuality is unique in early monastic literature in both its breadth and its depth, and his integration of biblical interpretation with the ways of prayer and teaching on ecstatic prayer are of fundamental importance for the western monastic tradition. The only Latin writer included in the classic Greek collections of monastic sayings, Cassian was the major spiritual influence on both the Rule of the Master and the Rule of Benedict, as well as the source for Gregory the Great's teaching on capital sins and compunction. Columba Stewart's book is the first major study of Cassian to be published in twenty years. It begins by establishing Cassian's credibility as a teacher on the basis of his own experience as a monk and his familiarity with the fundamental literary sources. Stewart then turns to Cassian's spiritual theology, paying particular attention to Cassian's view of the monastic journey in eschatological perspective, his teaching on continence and chastity, the Christological basis of biblical interpretation and prayer, his method of unceasing prayer, and his integration of ecstatic experience with an Evagrian theology of prayer.

Author : Benjamin Wirt Farley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802807922
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Virtue written by Benjamin Wirt Farley and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this resourceful and illuminating exploration of the biblical virtues, Benjamin W. Farley examines both the Old and the New Testament and applies their teachings on moral character to the Christian life today. In the process, Farley critically reviews the current philosophical and theological interest in virtue, engages the Aristotelian, Thomist, and modern views of virtue, incorporates and responds to feminist concerns, and discusses the importance of the biblical virtues for our pluralistic age.

Author : Mary Margaret Funk
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441151699
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectio Matters: Before The Burning Bush written by Mary Margaret Funk and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-193).

Author : Andrew Mellas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487599
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium written by Andrew Mellas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions in Byzantium came to life through hymnody, which invited the faithful to step into a liturgical world of compunction.

Author : Hannah Hunt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406451
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joy-bearing Grief written by Hannah Hunt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern study of penthos (tears of contrition), focusing on texts by Klimakos, Ephrem, Isaac and Symeon the New Theologian. It explores religious anthropology, a female 'voice' and how such tears are joyful as well as sad.

Author : Douglas Burton-Christie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190282061
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Word in the Desert written by Douglas Burton-Christie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing scholarly attention in recent years to the religious world of late antiquity has focused new attention on the quest for holiness by the strange, compelling, often obscure early Christian monks known as the desert fathers. Yet until now, little attention has been given to one of the most vital dimensions of their spirituality: their astute, penetrating interpretation of Scripture. Rooted in solitude, cultivated in an atmosphere of silence, oriented toward the practical appropriation of the sacred texts, the desert fathers' hermeneutic profoundly shaped every aspect of their lives and became a significant part of their legacy. This book explores the setting within which the early monastic movement emerged, the interpretive process at the center of the desert fathers' quest for holiness, and the intricate patterns of meaning woven into their words and their lives.

Author : John Chryssavgis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351925210
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Climacus written by John Chryssavgis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Chryssavgis explores the ascetic teaching and theology of St John Climacus, a classical and formative writer of the Christian medieval East, and the author of the seventh-century Ladder of Divine Ascent. This text proved to be the most widely used handbook of the spiritual life in the Christian East, partly because of its unique and striking symbol of the ladder that binds together the whole book. It has caught the attention of numerous readers in East and West alike through the ages and is a veritable classic of medieval spirituality, whose popularity in the East equals that of The Imitation of Christ in the West. Chryssavgis follows the development and influence of earlier desert literature, from Egypt through Palestine into Sinai, and includes a discussion of the theology of tears, the concept of unceasing prayer, as well as the monastic principles of hesychia (silence) and eros (love).

Author : Jeremy Driscoll
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809142643
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steps to Spiritual Perfection written by Jeremy Driscoll and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steps to Spiritual Perfection gathers eight studies into a single work that can serve as a companion volume to Ad Monachos in the Ancient Christian Writers series (Paulist Press). The book treats the following major themes of fourth-century Egyptian monasticism - spiritual progress, exegesis, purity of heart, and monastic prayer - and thereby bridges the distance between ourselves and this treasure from another time."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Claire Nesbitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317137833
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Byzantium written by Claire Nesbitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reception of imperial ekphraseis in Hagia Sophia to the sounds and smells of the back streets of Constantinople, the sensory perception of Byzantium is an area that lends itself perfectly to an investigation into the experience of the Byzantine world. The theme of experience embraces all aspects of Byzantine studies and the Experiencing Byzantium symposium brought together archaeologists, architects, art historians, historians, musicians and theologians in a common quest to step across the line that divides how we understand and experience the Byzantine world and how the Byzantines themselves perceived the sensual aspects of their empire and also their faith, spirituality, identity and the nature of ’being’ in Byzantium. The papers in this volume derive from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies by the University of Newcastle and University of Durham, at Newcastle upon Tyne in April 2011. They are written by a group of international scholars who have crossed disciplinary boundaries to approach an understanding of experience in the Byzantine world. Experiencing Byzantium is volume 18 in the series published by Ashgate on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.

Author : Richard J. Foster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597523607
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Oracion written by Richard J. Foster and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'La oraci—n es una relaci—n de amor con Dios' He aqu' un amplio y profundo an‡lisis de la pr‡ctica de la oraci—n. Richard Foster explora sus muchas facetas, desde los aspectos m‡s comunes hasta los m‡s extraordinarios, y describe la oraci—n como una jornada de transformaciones interiores, como senda que nos conduce a Dios y al ministerio. Al hacerlo, echa mano a las riquezas de los grandes clasicos de la oraci—n a travŽs de la historia y de su propia experiencia fuertemente arraigada en la Biblia. Nadie leer‡ LA ORACIîN sin experimentar un cambio en su vida. Todos encontraremos aliento en sus p‡ginas. El minsterio de la oraci—n se convertir‡ en una fuente de poder. La posibilidad de una profunda experiencia con la oraci—n quedar‡ a nuestro alcance.