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Author : Patrick Lally Michelson
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0299312003
As the cultural and ideological foundations of imperial Russia were threatened by forces of modernity, an array of Orthodox churchmen, theologians, and lay thinkers turned to asceticism, hoping to ensure the coming Kingdom of God promised to the Russian nation.
Author : Warren C. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108479588
Explores the lives of the early medieval laity beyond the interactions with churches and monasteries that dominate most of our sources.
Author : Paul Wilkes
Publisher : ACTA Publications
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879464295
Paul Wilkes believes that monastic spiritual wisdom can and should be accessible to all. Over the course of one year, he made monthly trips to the brothers at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist Monastery. During each visit he focused on a particular aspect of monastic life, and each month's visit comprises a chapter of this book. Each chapter opens with a description of Wilkes' physical visit to the monastery, which he uses to lead into difficult explorations of issues such as faith, prayer, community, and discernment. Each chapter closes as Wilkes searches for the proper ways to integrate what he has learned during his time at the Abbey into his life as a father, husband, teach, writer, and lay minister. He uses monastic wisdom to speak to the journey of faith itself, letting readers discover their own path "beyond the walls."
Author : Patrick Lally Michelson
Publisher :
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Asceticism
ISBN : 9780299312039
Author : Warren C. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108782868
Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by Christian churches and monasteries. It is their records and libraries which have survived the centuries, to tell us how the clerics, monks, and nuns who lived and worked within their walls experienced the world around them. We thus see the lay inhabitants of that wider world mostly when they are interacting with the clergy. However, a few sources let us explore lay life in this period more broadly. Beyond the Monastery Walls exploits perhaps the richest of these: manuscript books containing formulas, or models, for documents that do not otherwise survive. Through these books, Warren C. Brown explores the concerns and behavior of lay men and women in this period on their own terms, and casts fresh light on a part of the medieval world that is usually hidden from view. In the process, he shows how early medievalists are winning fresh information from our sources by looking at them in new ways.
Author : Paul Wilkes
Publisher : Image
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385494366
With earnest resolve and the vague hope of a deeper spiritual life, Paul Wilkes began his monthly visits to a Trappist monastery. His plan was to spend time each month with the monks and take back into his hectic world of family and profession what he had garnered from the cloistered life. But Wilkes naively misjudged how difficult it would be to achieve his seemingly simple good intentions. Monasticism turned out to be far more complx and demanding that he had imagined, calling upon him to look deeply into himself and requiring a bravery he was not sure, at first, that he possessed. A year later, he had not only discovered the simple path of monastic spirituality, but had journeyed to the depths of his soul and realized that the influences on his daily life were truly immense. With the ever-increasing call for access to authentic spiritual traditions,Beyond The Wallsbreaks new ground. This is a book that points a way for "new monks" to live a rich, challenging life filled with grace and faith.
Author : Bruce L. Davis, PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1475920202
There is a part of each of us that is a monk or a mystic. We yearn for perfect peace yet live our lives far removed from traditional monasteriesyet most of us would not want to give up our personal and spiritual freedom to join monastic life. We seek wholeness but realize that wholeness is not possible without sacredness. Sacred life takes root in solitude, in the time we take to develop a relationship with our inner lifein the kind of setting a monastery would offer. This book speaks to the monk or mystic within us. It affirms our place in the sacred silence of solitude and inner reflection, showing how even everyday life is filled with opportunities to live fully in the worldas if it were a holy monastery. Here we learn to live within the limits as well as the spirit of everyday life, how to appreciate our most human self as the path to explore the divine. Here we encounter a world that is clearly available to us, a world filled with nothing less than the gift of sacred silence within the monastery without walls.
Author : George Wilton
Publisher : Az Boek
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 6256468716
Discover the Ancient Practices for Tranquility and Spiritual Growth.
Author : Elizabeth S. Bolman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300092245
The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.
Author : Mary David
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1472971337
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 of Virginia and Christ Church, Oxford. After a distinguished teaching career, she entered religious life in 1985. For 22 years until her early death from cancer she guided the young nuns of her abbey with enthusiasm, wisdom and wit. The spirituality to be found in the pages of this book demonstrates to the reader why her influence should have been so great and so deep. Her notes to the novices deal with issues of relevance to a world beyond the cloister: What is the meaning of suffering? How do we cope with living with people who annoy us? How do we relate to a God we cannot see? How do we make the big decisions of life? Sister Mary David's teaching was both profound and intensely practical, suffused with faith in God's joy in our work, leisure, community and family life but above all in our view and understanding of ourselves. This book, with an introduction by Abbot Erik Varden OCSO (author of The Shattering of Loneliness) shows us how to realize the Joy that is God.