Communities & monasticism

Life-Giving Way, A: A Contemplative Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict [9781848255623]

Around the year 500 St Benedict wrote a short guide for a small community who wanted to live together the balanced life of body, mind and spirit. The …

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A Universal Heart: The Life and Vision of Brother Roger of Taize

This updated edition ÔÇô with a new colour-plate section ÔÇô is published to celebrate the centenary of Brother RogerÔÇÖs birth on 12 May 1915.In Augu…

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Praying with the Benedictines: A Window on the Cloister [9780809144433]

Western culture has recently experienced a major rebirth of interest in monasticism - particularly in regard to the ancient Benedictine order. In Pra…

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The Wounded Heart of Thomas Merton [9780809146840]

Robert Waldron's brief biography of Thomas Merton examines and exposes a man who lived a deeply spiritual life, yes, but also a deeply conflicted one …

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World Without End [9781472942487]

In these conversations with film maker and writer Lucette Verboven, Thomas Keating OCSO - bestselling author, Trappist monk and founder of the Centeri…

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A Time to Keep Silence [9780719555275]

From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leig…

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Accidental Friends: Stories from my life in community [9780232533873]

As L'Arche Daybreak and L'Arche Canada approach their 50th anniversary, this beautifully-written memoir tells the inside story of daily life with peop…

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Athos: The Holy Mountain [9781784537999]

Athos, the Holy Mountain of Greece, is one of the most mysterious places in the world. A rugged pyramid that rises up from the Aegean Sea, this mounta…

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Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths [9781903816165]

Bede Griffiths was well-known during his lifetime for his efforts to harmonize the spiritual practices of East and West, but the full range of his inf…

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Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America [9780814795569]

Winner, Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) Distinguished Book Award Winner, 2014 Catholic Book Award in History presented by the Cath…

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Cave Refectory Road: Monastic Rhythms for Contemporary Living [9781848250284]

One way in which Fresh Expressions of church are springing into life is through 'new monastic' or 'intentional' communities, groups of individuals an…

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Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen: Pt.2: French Estates [9780197261378]

This is a critical edition of the 12th-century surveys (custumals) of the French estates of the Norman Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen. Together with its …

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Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: v. I: Akhmim and Sohag [9789774161223]

Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Sohag region of Upper Egypt from as early as the fourth century until the pr…

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Christianity and Monasticism in Wadi Al-Natrun: Essays from the 2002 International Symposium of the Saint Mark Foundation and the Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society [9789774162602]

This book offers important contributions to the archaeology and history of Christianity in one of Egypt's leading ancient Christian centers. Wadi al-N…

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Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 [9780812218534]

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002 In the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to fo…

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Cloister, Abbot and Precinct in Medieval Monasteries [9780752419367]

Cloister, Abbot and Precinct in Medieval Monasteries

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Cold War Letters [9781570756627]

Published in book form for the first time, Thomas Merton's

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Communities of the Last Days: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament [9780851114675]

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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture [9780801441103]

Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a rang…

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Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050 [9781501715945]

In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested wi…

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