4,983円 Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny, Claire Foster-Gilbert of Westminster Abbey Institute gathers a series of essays and ...

1,978円 In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, o...

703円 From very early in her history the Church has been filled with men and women who have dedicated themselves exclusively to God in the religious life. Over the centuries the Holy Spirit has inspired a multitude of religious orders, from which many of the great saints have emerged. This eBook examin...

1,600円 Franziskus von Assisi gehört zu den faszinierendsten Heiligen. Durch das "Sonnenlied" und seine Predigt an die Vögel gilt er als der Begründer eines völlig neuen, brüderlichen Verhältnisses zur Natur. Helmut Feld beschreibt anschaulich das Leben des Franziskus, führt in seine religiöse Vorstellun...

451円 Preface Many times it 's hard to capture in words WHAT THE HEART Seeks to Express. Yes, it is such when friends speak to one another. How much more challenging is it to capture the 'WORDS' of the heart, that are many times layered with worldliness accumulated over the years, yet desiring to soar ...

6,633円 In Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity, Paul C. Dilley explores the personal practices and group rituals through which the thoughts of monastic disciples were monitored and trained to purify the mind and help them achieve salvation. Dilley draws widely on the interdisci...

1,867円 Una madre divorciada, Anne apenas puede enfrentarse a la vida y lucha por encontrarle sentido a la muerte de su hijo menor. El exarquitecto con una carrera prometedora, Mark trabaja como albañil y se pregunta cómo su vida es desvió del camino. El abad del monasterio de los santos apóstoles Felipe...

16,848円 This book opens a window on the lived experience of monastic reform in the twelfth century. Drawing on a variety of textual and material sources from the south German monastery of Petershausen, it begins with the local process of reform and moves out into intertwined regional social, political, a...

5,040円 This volume, written by eighteen monks, nuns, and lay scholars from seven countries and four continents, aims to recognize the contribution that Michael Casey has made to Cistercian and Benedictine life over the past forty years. Acclaimed as one of the most significant writers in the Benedictine...

978円 “a book that needs to be taken very seriously” ー Philip North ー “challenging lessons for the modern church” ー Michael Turnbull ー This is a radical and controversial challenge to the top-down leadership models that are so widespread in the church, instead making the case for a new model of peo...

1,657円 Four college students and a young professor began reading Greek and Russian Orthodox books on aestheticism and plan to visit Mount Athos, a peninsula in Northern Greece devoted to monastic communities and still governed under Byzantine law. The first half of the book describes the misadventures o...

675円 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? In this Very Short Introduction Stephen J. D...