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Price: $5.95
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Sale: $2.38
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Murray Bodo
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.482
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Publication Date: 2000-11-01
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Reading Level: 48
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Description: Written by the author of the best-selling Francis: The Journey and the Dream, this brief meditation describes Francis' method of prayer. Francis considered this threefold path to God a precondition for anyone wishing to achieve a spiritual interior life. The path has three loves which are really the same: loving God through loving others, through loving nature, and through loving one's self. Focusing on the Other through love is the very center of Franciscan thought. How we love and the extent of that love then teaches us how to pray. Francis is sometimes portrayed as a dreamy romantic, a knight-errant, a troubadour, a poor fool for the poor Christ. The book shows how Francis was also very much a realist and how his three-way path fits practically within day-to-day living. The book shows how embracing others, especially the poor and rejected, is a way of embracing those parts of ourselves we haven't yet accepted; thus we're brought to a new healthier sense of the body and of sexuality. The world is good and holy; this is the Franciscan gift to the world. This slim book offers enriching help for spiritual seekers, for those looking for a more affirming way to pray, for those in need of self-forgiveness and love, and for those working toward social justice. It's also a delight and a treasure for Francis devotees and for anyone who wants to find "the Francis within."
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $33.31
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Manufacturer: Geoffrey Chapman
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Robson
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Publisher: Geoffrey Chapman
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2000-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Price: $125.00
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Sale: $69.56
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert Moats Miller
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 286.10924
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Publication Date: 1985-02-21
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Reading Level: 624
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Description: A major figure in American religious and cultural history, Fosdick was famous as a preacher, a pacifist and a champion of civil rights. He was also the author of forty-seven books.
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Manufacturer: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jean Vanier
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Publisher: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248
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Publication Date: 1989-09-18
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A guide to communal life. Completely revised.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Cistercian Pubns
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Saint Iosif Volotskii
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Publisher: Cistercian Pubns
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Edition: Revised, 2000
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Dewey Decimal Number: 255.819
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Publication Date: 1983-02
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Reading Level: 247
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Loyola Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph N. Tylenda
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Publisher: Loyola Press
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.53022
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Publication Date: 1998-03
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Reading Level: 478
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Description: Here is a collection of short biographies of Saints, Blessed, Venerables, and Servants of God of the Society of Jesus.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $19.35
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Silvia Evangelisti
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.9
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Publication Date: 2007-04-26
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Nuns tells the fascinating stories of the women who have lived in religious communities during some of the most tumultuous years in European history. Drawing particularly on the nuns' own words, Silvia Evangelisti reveals their ideals and achievements, frustrations and failures, and their attempts to reach out to the society around them. She explores how they came to the cloister, how they responded to monastic discipline, and how they pursued their spiritual, intellectual, and missionary activities.
Life in the Middle Ages and the centuries that followed offered few options for high-born women. Your choice was, as one Italian noblewoman put it, "between a marriage and a wall." If your family could not afford a dowry, or you did not wish to marry, you could join a convent to escape the shame of being unwed. Some extremely pious women, so abhorring the idea of marriage, went as far as to throw themselves into boiling water so that their scarred bodies and faces would be unappealing to their prospective husbands. For many that joined, the convent was a chance to achieve some measure of a career, working as valued manuscript copiers or cultivating talents in the visual and musical arts. Despite strict rules which kept many orders separated from the outside world, nuns often found a way to contribute to their communities by creating charities and schools, while a few exceptional women made names for themselves for their artistic talents or for establishing new convents. This book features the individual stories of some of these outstanding historical figures, including Teresa of Avila, who set up over seventeen new convents, despite opposition from powerful politicians. When Europeans began to extend their interest in the New World, it was often the establishment of convents that provided the easiest transfer of European ideals and culture into the new colonies.
Despite the restrictions that were placed on the lives of nuns, Evangelisti clearly shows how these women were able to overcome some of the restrictions placed on women in their societies at large. In doing so, she provides a fascinating and rarely seen glimpse into their intriguing world.
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Price: $70.00
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Sale: $59.18
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Daniel Folger Caner
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.009015
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Publication Date: 2002-08-05
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Reading Level: 335
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Description: An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and independence from episcopal control. This book is the first comprehensive study of this type of Christian poverty and the challenge it posed for episcopal authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity. Focusing on devotional practices, Daniel Caner draws together diverse testimony from Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and elsewhere-including the Pseudo-Clementine Letters to Virgins, Augustine's On the Work of Monks, John Chrysostom's homilies, legal codes-to reveal gospel-inspired patterns of ascetic dependency and teaching from the third to the fifth centuries. Throughout, his point of departure is social and cultural history, especially the urban social history of the late Roman empire. He also introduces many charismatic individuals whose struggle to persist against church suppression of their chosen way of imitating Christ was fought with defiant conviction, and the book includes the first annotated English translation of the biography of Alexander Akoimetos (Alexander the Sleepless). Wandering, Begging Monks allows us to understand these fascinating figures of early Christianity in the full context of late Roman society. 2 maps
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $38.62
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Susan W. McMichaels
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.302
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Publication Date: 1997-06
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Shows that the 13th-century life of St. Francis of Assisi is a heroic example of the process of individuation described by Carl Jung.
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Price: $57.00
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Sale: $47.48
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: H. J. A. Sire
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.7912
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Publication Date: 1994-02-23
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: The Order of St John, or Knights of Malta, was founded in Jerusalem in the 1070s as a hospice for pilgrims. During the Crusades it developed a military and subsequently a political role, and in succeeding centuries influenced and interfered considerably in the diplomatic and religious history of Europe. It sill survives today, in a somewhat mysterious form. However, there is no complete history of the Order, in any language, nor has any attention been paid to the Order's considerable artistic legacy. In this book, Sire describes the history and origins of the Knights of St John, examining as well other aspects, including the important Hospitaller castles of the medieval period, such as Crac des Chevaliers; the Priories of the order established throughout Europe, with their art and architecture; the role played by the Knights in the history of their respective countries; and the art (portraiture, jewellery, illuminated manuscripts - much of which is illustrated here) collected by the Knights. In the final section, Sire describes the conquest of Malta by Napoleon, looks at an episode in the 1950s when a Catholic cardinal tried to subject the order to Vatican control, and finishes by describing the modern version of the Order.
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