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I May Be Wrong: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Björn Natthiko Lindeblad
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77'This book really, really will stay with me forever. It's not only laced with the most incredible wisdom, but it's also gentle and beautiful and eloquent. It brought me so much joy and so much comfort' FEARNE COTTON 'Life-changing. This book is... -
Camaldolese Extraordinary by Dom Jean LeClercq 9780972813266
RRP: £15.18Booksplease Price: £14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972813266Author Dom Jean LeclercqFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Holy Family HermitagePublisher Holy Family HermitageWeight(grams)... -
The Monastic World: A Thousand Year History Andrew Jotischky 9780300208566
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.32A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and... -
The Craft of Church Planting: Exploring the Lost Wisdom of Apprenticeship by Christian Selvaratnam 9780334061816
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.48Drawing on insights from the training practices of the English medieval craft guilds, a global survey of 500 church planters, interviews with artists and church planting trainers and the authors 30 years of ministry experience, 'The Craft of Church... -
Vedanta and Christian Faith by Bede Griffiths 9781958972168
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972168Author Bede GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company -
The City is my Monastery: A contemporary rule of life by Richard Carter 9781786222138
Booksplease Price: £20.16Richard Carter swapped a life of simplicity with an Anglican religious order in the Solomon Islands for parish ministry in one of London's busiest churches, St Martin-in-the-Fields. Seeing a need for monastic values in the centre of the city, he... -
The Blessing Of Blessings: Gregory of Narek's Commentary on the Song of Songs by Roberta R. Ervine 9780879072155
Booksplease Price: £21.33Gregory of Narek (c. 945-1003), a monk and a priest, is best know for his poetic works, and one of the few armenian commentators on the Song of Songs, which was so great a focus among western monastic writers of the patristic and medieval periods. Living... -
The Joy of God: Collected Writings by Mary David, OSB
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34A journey from where we are to achieving true happiness. Sister Mary David Totah was a nun of the Benedictine contemplative community of St Cecilia's Abbey on the Isle of Wight. American by birth, she was educated at Loyola University, the University... -
The Templar Treasure at Gisors by Jean Markale 9780892819720
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892819720Author Jean MarkaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
The Rule of Benedict by Saint Benedict of Nursia
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70St Benedict's inspirational work has been guiding Benedictine monks for fifteen centuries, and the Penguin Classics edition of The Rule of Benedict is translated with an introduction and notes by Carolinne White.Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino,... -
Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.98A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Vivid, compelling... An embrace of moral and spiritual contemplation." -The New York Times"A remarkable piece of writing. If read with humility and attention, Kathleen Norris's book... -
A New Monastic Handbook: From Vision to Practice by Ian Mobsby 9781848254589
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.45Two leading practitioners of new monasticism open up the movement's spiritual landscape and its distinctive calling and gifts within today's church. Practical experiences and stories are set alongside reflection and liturgies as a creative resource for... -
The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality by Greg Peters 9780801098055
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.47Although the institution of monasticism has existed in the Christian church since the first century, it is often misunderstood. Greg Peters, an expert in monastic studies, reintroduces historic monasticism to the Protestant church, articulating a... -
The Way of St Benedict by Rowan Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34With typical eloquence and wisdom, in The Way of St Benedict Rowan Williams explores the appeal of St Benedict's sixth-century Rule, showing it to be a document of great relevance to present day Christians and non-believers at our particular moment in... -
The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality by Greg Peters 9780801048913
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.08Some evangelicals perceive monasticism as a relic from the past, a retreat from the world, or a shirking of the call to the Great Commission. At the same time, contemporary evangelical spirituality desires historical Christian manifestations of the faith... -
The Warriors and Bankers by Alan Butler 9780853182528
Booksplease Price: £10.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853182528Author Alan ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Lewis Masonic -
The Early Muslim Conquest of Syria: An English Translation of al-Azdi's Futuh al-Sham Hamada Hassanein 9781032088723
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.99This book narrates the battles, conquests and diplomatic activities of the early Muslim fighters in Syria and Iraq vis-a-vis their Byzantine and Sasansian counterparts. It is the first English translation of one of the earliest Arabic sources on the... -
The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life Sister Joan Chittister, OSB 9781399800853
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.67Activist, nun and spiritual guide Joan Chittister invites us to create a monastery within ourselves: to cultivate wisdom and resilience, so we can live more easily and give of ourselves more fully, no matter our circumstances.'In every beating heart is a... -
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History by James Clark
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.99The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years-exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England "This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast... -
The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life by Sebastian Brock 9780879079017
Booksplease Price: £31.67The textbook and pulpit notion that all Christendom is divided between Greek East and Latin West overlooks an ancient and still continuing third stream of tradition: Syriac Christianity. Cut off from the rest of the Christian world by theological... -
The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians Of The True Identity Of Christ by Clive Prince
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. More clues were... -
The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 1; A-H (Eta) by Tim Vivian 9780879071097
Booksplease Price: £41.042022 Catholic Media Association second place award in theology: history of theology, church fathers and mothersThe Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings... -
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.05From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic... -
Lectio Matters: Before the Burning Bush by Mary Margaret Funk 9780814635056
Booksplease Price: £20.16Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature.InLectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg... -
Spiritual Friendship by Aelred of Rievaulx
Booksplease Price: £15.11Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 '1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual... -
Christian de Cherge: A Theology of Hope by Christian Salenson 9780879072476
Booksplease Price: £21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879072476Author Christian SalensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Cistercian Publications IncPublisher Cistercian Publications IncWeight(grams) 255g -
The Monastery of the Heart: Benedictine Spirituality for Contemporary Seekers by Joan Chittister 9781629190204
Booksplease Price: £11.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629190204Author Joan ChittisterFormat HardbackImprint BlueBridgePublisher BlueBridgeWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 130mm * 15mm -
The Praktikos & Chapters On Prayer by Evagrius Ponticus
Booksplease Price: £13.61The living link through whom the ascetic principles of hellenistic philosophers passed into monasticism, Evagrius molded christian asceticism through his own works and through his influence on John Cassian, Climacus, Pseudo 'Denis, and Saint Benedict... -
The Wisdom of St Benedict: Monastic Spirituality and the Life of the Church by Luigi Gioia 9781786223098
Booksplease Price: £20.16Luigi Gioia is one of the most insightful commentators on monastic and priestly life today. In The Wisdom of St Benedict he shines the light of monastic spirituality on many aspects of the contemporary Church, including: • Vocation • Christian action •... -
They Speak by Silences by A. Carthusian 9780852446720
Booksplease Price: £8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852446720Author A. CarthusianFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 202g -
Letters from Nazareth: A Contemplative Journey Home by Richard Carter 9781786224910
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.82This wise and beautiful book, written in the form of spiritual letters, reflects on the themes of home and being at home: with ourselves, with each other, with the times we are living through, and with God. Nazareth, where Jesus spent his first thirty... -
In Praise of the New Knighthood by Conrad Greenia 9780879071202
Booksplease Price: £20.79The monk and the knight-the two quintessentially medieval European heroes-were combined in the Knights Templar and in the other military orders founded in the era of the Crusades. With characteristic eloquence, Bernard of Clairvaux voices the cleric's... -
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds by Jocelin of Brakelond 9780199554935
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of... -
St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200 by Gerald Bonner 9780851156101
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £36.34`Very fine collection of essays a rich feast of scholarship with many discoveries and new interpretations of greatest value for Anglo-Saxon history.' SPECULUM St Cuthbert is known to many as the the saintly bishop of Holy Island inthe 7th century, but he... -
A Nun's Story: Sister Agatha by Sister Agatha 9781786062512
Booksplease Price: £7.10THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERShirley Leach lived in a world of extreme comfort, wealth and status. With every good thing life had to offer, she was due to marry the man she loved a man who, in turn, adored her. But all this was to change in a single moment... -
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages by C.H. Lawrence 9780367767914
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.86Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. It explores the relationship between... -
The Sayings Of The Desert Fathers: The Apophthegmata Patrum by Benedicta Ward, SLG
Booksplease Price: £13.55`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. TheirSayings were collected, in this case in the... -
Saint Columban: His Life, Rule, and Legacy by Terrance G. Kardong 9780879072704
Booksplease Price: £18.99Saint Columban: His Life, Rule, and Legacy contains a new English translation of a commentary on the entire Rule of Columban. Columban was a sixth-century Irish monk who compiled a written rule of life for the three monasteries he founded in France:... -
The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns by Matty Weingast
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645470564Author Matty WeingastFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Saint Bruno the Carthusian by Andre Ravier 9780852449240
Booksplease Price: £10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852449240Author Andre RavierFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing