Cistercian Studies
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The Praktikos & Chapters on Prayer: Volume 4
$19.95 Add to cartEvagrius Ponticus is the living link through whom the ascetic principles of hellenistic philosophers passed into the mainstream of christian monasticism. Although not know by name for generations, Ev
- Series: Cistercian Studies #04
- Author: Evagrius Ponticus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0879079045
- Language: English
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The Very Devout Meditations Attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux: A Translation with Introduction and Notes of the Meditationes Piisimae de Cognitione H
$29.95 Read moreThere were two Bernards of Clairvaux. The first was the genuine Bernard who lived from 1090 to 1153, and wrote letters, sermons, and treatises that are of major consequence in the history of the twelf… [more below]
- Series: Cistercian Studies #298
- Author: Bell, David N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: November 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0879071575
- Language: English
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The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 2: Th-O (Theta-Oméga) Volume 292
$49.95 Read moreThe Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the first time in an English t
- Series: Cistercian Studies #292
- Author: Vivian, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 087907292X
- Language: English
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The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian Volume 124
$29.95 Add to cartAll but unknown outside the Syrian tradition, Ephrem’s rich theology of symbol, asceticism, and prayer amply deserves to stand beside his more famous Greek contemporaries.
- Series: Cistercian Studies #124
- Author: Brock, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0879076240
- Language: English
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The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian: Volume 175
$34.95 Add to cartFrom 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- Series: Cistercian Studies #175
- Author: Alfeyev, Hilarion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0879077751
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Monks of Paulestine: Volume 114
$39.95 Add to cartDuring the later fifth and early sixth centuries the most creative developments in Eastern Christian monasticism occurred not in Egypt or in Syria, but in Palestine, through the work of St Euthymius
- Series: Cistercian Studies #114
- Author: Cyril of Scythopolis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0879079142
- Language: English
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Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations: Volume 48
$22.95 Add to cart‘My thoughts on the spiritual exercises proper to cloistered monks’; the ninth prior of La Grande Chartreuse ( ‘1180) articulates the monastic contemplative tradition in distinctively western terms.
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- Series: Cistercian Studies #48
- Author: Guigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: November 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0879077484
- Language: English
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Spiritual Friendship: Volume 5
$21.95 Add to cartSpiritual 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
- Series: Cistercian Studies #5
- Author: Aelred of Rievaulx
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0879079703
- Language: English
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Evagrius of Pontus: Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons
$24.95 Add to cartHow did the monks of the Egyptian desert fight against the demons that attacked them with tempting thoughts? How could Christians resist the thoughts of gluttony, fornication, or pride that assailed t… [more below]
- Series: Cistercian Studies #229
- Author: Evagrius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0879073292
- Language: English
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Apophthegmata Patrum: The Alphabetic Collection Volume 59
$19.95 Add to cartGive 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
- Series: Cistercian Studies #59
- Author: Ward, Benedicta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 1, 1975
- ISBN10: 0879079592
- Language: English
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The Hermitage Within: Spirituality of the Desert by a Monk Volume 180
$24.95 Add to cartNot 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
- Series: Cistercian Studies #180
- Author: Neame, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 01, 1987
- ISBN10: 0879077808
- Language: English
