The Letters Of St Antony

Author : Samuel Rubenson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780800629106
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of St. Antony written by Samuel Rubenson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revolutionizes our understanding of the life and thought of the great anchorite father of the Egyptian desert. It is a signal contribution to our knowledge of Egyptian Christianity in the third and fourth centuries.—Birger Pearson, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Samuel Rubenson, by means of a fresh analysis of the letters of St. Antony, exposes the distortion of the picture of early Christian monks as unlettered and primitive. Rubenson describes the desert monasteries as centers of theological reflection in Egypt, showing how they combined the speculative philosophy of the Greeks and the biblical tradition. Included in this volume is a new translation of the letters themselves, which are shown to be authentic and an important source for the study of the desert fathers and the early monastic tradition. The later image of Antony is demonstrated to be influenced by church politics of the latter part of the fourth century. Samuel Rubenson is Associate Professor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Author : Athanase ((saint ;)
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809122950
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus written by Athanase ((saint ;) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athanasius (c. 295-373) Bishop of Alexandria, spiritual master and theologian, was a major figure of 4th-century Christendom. The Life of Antony is one of the foremost classics of asceticism. The Letter to Marcellinus is an introduction to the spiritual sense of the Psalms.

Author : Derwas Chitty
Publisher : SLG Press
ISBN 13 : 0728303116
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of Saint Antony the Great written by Derwas Chitty and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 1975-04-20 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seven letters were addressed by St Antony (251-356 AD) to his disciples. This hermit of the Egyptian desert draws our attention to those things which are essential in the spiritual life. Among the main themes are the witness of the Holy Spirit in the conscience of each person, the need for self-knowledge, the call to follow Christ, the unity of the Church, and our mutual co-inherence as members of the Body of Christ.

Author : Elizabeth S. Bolman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300092245
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastic Visions written by Elizabeth S. Bolman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.

Author : Albert Haase OFM
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083083592X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athanasius written by Albert Haase OFM and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athanasius, one of the most influential church fathers in history, records in his Life of Antony of Egypt the story of another extremely influential figure of early Christianity. Albert Haase's paraphrase of this important work gives us access to a masterwork of spiritual formation, that we too might know God as richly as Athanasius did.

Author : St Athanasius of Alexandria
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781387787333
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of St. Anthony of Egypt written by St Athanasius of Alexandria and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographic text of St. Anthony is presented complete in this edition for the reader's absorption and contemplation. First published in the 4th century A.D., Anthony the Great's biography was authored by Christian Saint Athanasius of Alexandria. Since its release, the book has helped spread the beliefs, practices and arduous faith of Anthony the Great. A significant progenitor of the monastic tradition, Saint Anthony lived an ascetic lifestyle in the arid lands of Egypt. Although not the earliest of religious figures committed to this tradition, through actions and preaching Anthony helped popularise and spread principles that would contribute heavily to the establishment of Christian monasteries in Europe and beyond. One event in St. Anthony's life was his encounter with the supernatural in the remote Egyptian desert. This occurrence, where the otherworldly presence tried to tempt him from his spartan philosophy of living, is much recreated in Western art and literature.

Author : Atanasio (Santo)
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Saint Antony written by Atanasio (Santo) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1950 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important document of early monasticism, written in 357, this is a biography of the recognized founder and father of monasticism. +

Author : Saint Anthony (of Egypt)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of St. Antony the Great written by Saint Anthony (of Egypt) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher : Cistercian Publications Books
ISBN 13 : 9780879079024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Antony written by Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria) and published by Cistercian Publications Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instrumental in the conversion of many, including Augustine, The Life of Antony provided the model for subsequent saints' life and constituted, in the words of patristics scholar Johannes Quasten, 'the most important document of early monasticism.'

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429945230
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Life written by Thomas Merton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside . . . who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old." It is a remarkable work-one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and solitary, with a passionate defense of the contemplative's quest for God. The intense beauty of Merton's meditation, radiating from beneath its surface calm, makes The Silent Life a classic of its kind.