Monasticism

William Short summs up the Franciscan tradition as 'chaotic and intuitive, creative and affectionate, radical and obedient', and shows it to be as appealing a way of life today as in the past. He focuses on St Francis of Assisi and St Clare, the...

The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism.Gives particular...

One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organizational dimensions, from the loftiest to the lowliest, of monastic life. This new Latin-English edition has features of...

In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest centre of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually...

In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life. To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312207748Author Janwillem van de WeteringFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's Press

This practical guide to the spiritual life, cherished by monks, beguines, and lay folk for eight centuries, can still lead men and women to God. Reviews. . . its extensive influence, due in some degree to its early and false attribution to Saint Bernard,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953450128Author Saint BonaventureFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Mockingbird PressPublisher Mockingbird PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

From the Foreword by Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia- Isaac the Syrian, also called Isaac of Nineveh, lived and wrote during "the golden age of Syriac Christian literature" in the seventh century. Cut off by language and politics from the Churches of...

The dedicated religious life of monks and nuns has a fascination for many of us-at a distance. We live in the world we have, and it's hard to figure out how to do it in a God-filled way. "The World is Our Cloister" is about the new religious life; a life...

For centuries male celibates have described, expressed, and celebrated their love of God in the language of sex, most prolifically and characteristically in a thousand years' commentarial tradition on the Song of Songs. After analysing the tradition, its...

This book reveals the riches of the Cistercian tradition and it's relevance for today's world. It draws on such twelfth-century writers as Bernard of Chairvaux and Aelred of Rievaulx, but also Thomas Merton and other contemporary Cistercians who wrote on...

Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon which originated in antiquity and which still remains relevant in the twenty-first century. But what, exactly, is it, and how is it distinguished from other kinds of religious and non-religious practice? ...

Presents Father Columba's chapter-by-chapter commentary designed to help others share St Benedict's words and approach to living the Christian life. The book draws on the author's lifetime of living and teaching the Rule, of his mission experience and on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879076900Author John WortleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Liturgical PressPublisher Liturgical PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In the sixth century when the Roman Empire was breaking apart and politics, cultural life and even the Church were in disarray - tumultuous times not unlike our own - Benedict of Nursia designed what he termed "a little rule" that showed his monks the...

A lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the Middle Ages, bringing them vividly to life. with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Roehrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer. Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book...

John-Francis Friendship spent twenty-five years as an Anglican Franciscan friar. Drawing on the whole breadth of monastic history and experience, he looks at core aspects of monastic and religious life and applies its practical wisdom for living well in...

During his twenty years as abbot of the Yorkshire monastery of Rievaulx, Aelred preached many sermons: to his own monks, in other monasteries, and at significant gatherings outside the cloister. His disciple and biographer, Walter Daniel, mentions...

Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595190553Author Bruce DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 141mm * 14mm

A full and comprehensive survey of the development of the Cistercian Order which emerged from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic...

At the age of forty-five, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a professed Franciscan friar, took up running. In his younger life he had struggled with alcoholism and with his sexual identity. Running became cathartic not just for his body, but for making...

Drawing upon a surprising wealth of evidence found in surviving manuscripts, this book restores friars to their rightful place in the history of English health care. Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late medieval England...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789591989Author Luke MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther instituted new ideologies addressing gender, marriage, chastity, and religious life that threatened Catholic monasticism. Yet many living in cloistered religious communities, particularly women, refused to...

In this title, major spiritual writer returns to examine basic Christian truths and the experience of resurrection through terminal illness. This is a book of hope and encouragement. Maria Boulding was a Benedictine nun of the enclosed Stanbrook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879077105Author Lawrence T. MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Cistercian Publications IncPublisher Cistercian Publications IncWeight(grams) 482g

2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in backlist beautyBenedictine Daily Prayer provides an everyday edition of the Divine Office for people who desire to pray with the church in a simple manner. Based on fifteen hundred years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782183808Author Hugh MacMahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Columba BooksPublisher Columba Books

Not everyone can, or should, live as a hermit. Yet all Christians need an inner hermitage, a place apart where we come face-to-face with our true selves, and listen to the still small voice of God. It is a place of silence, of fear and fascination, of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062905215Author Jay W. RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Award-winning French author shares the biography and spiritual journey of Cistercian abbot Dom Andre Louf. Based on a wide variety of interviews, printed sources, and Dom Andre Louf's spiritual journal, The Way of the Heart narrates Louf's spiritual...

Historian and Iona Community member Rosemary Power tells the story of the small Hebridean island of Iona and its remarkable spiritual influence over fifteen centuries. Beginning with the earliest Stone Age settlements, she combines new translations of...

A Benedictine Reader shares the treasures of the Benedictine traditionthrough the collaboration of a dozen scholars. It provides a broad and deep sense of the reality of Benedictine monasticism using primary sources in English translation. The texts...

'I have plucked the finest flowers of the unmown meadow and worked them into a row which I now offer to you', wrote John Moschos as he began his tales of the holy men of seventh-century Palestine and Egypt. This translation offers readers contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814685068Author Paula HustonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Liturgical PressPublisher Liturgical PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Rule of St. Benedictforms the foundation for one of the oldest ongoing institutions in all of Western civilization. The Rule not only defines life for men and women in monasteries but has also become central to the spirituality of lay Christians...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389002Author Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal SchusterFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams)...

A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two-year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of female...