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A History of the Monks of Syria by Theodoret of Cyrrhus
Translated by R.M. Price
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An apologist, an exegete, and a champion of antiochene christology, Bishop Theodoret presents an austere ideal of holiness which Syrian Christians found irresistible. See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-988-8
Cistercian Product #: CS088
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Abba Isaiah of Scetis
Ascetic Discourses
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by John Chryssavgis and Pachomios (Robert) Penkett
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Written in the fifth century, during one of the most formative periods of christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine, The Ascetic Discourses show a strong influence of the Scripture, both Old and New, and of Early monastic writers. They are marked ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-750-1
Cistercian Product #: CS150P
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Bearers of the Spirit
Spiritual Fatherhood in the Romanian Orthodox Tradition
Nicolas Stebbing CR
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Price: $34.95
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Christians in various western traditions are re-discovering spiritual direction. Yet many have little experience of the living tradition of spiritual fatherhood. The book sets out to learn how Orthodox Christians understand and value their spiritual ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-701-3
Cistercian Product #: CS201
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Besa
The Life of Shenoute
Translated, with an Introduction, by David N. Bell
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Shenoute of Atripe, ranked second only to Pachomius for his contribution to the development of egyptian monasticism, is all but unknown outside the coptic tradition. This first english translation of his Life, by his disciple and successor, casts new... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-873-7
Cistercian Product #: CS073
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The Blessing of Blessings
Gregory of Narek’s Commentary on the Song of Songs
Translated by Roberta Ervine
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Price: $24.95
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Gregory of Narek (c. 945-1003), a monk and a priest, is best known for his poetic works, and one of the few commentators on the Song of Songs, which was so great a focus among western monastic writers of the patristic and medieval periods. Living dur... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-215-5
Cistercian Product #: CS215P
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Cyril of Scythopolis
The Lives of the Monks of Palestine
Translated by R. M. Price; Introduction and notes by John Binns
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The narrow stretch of desert between the Jordan Valley and the hill country of Judea drew great biblical prophets—Elijah and John the Baptist—and unforgettable christian ascetics. Our best source of information on this movement from AD 400-600 comes ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-914-7
Cistercian Product #: CS114P
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Dorotheos of Gaza
Discourses and Sayings
Translated by Eric Wheeler OSB; Introduction by Chrysogonus Waddell OCSO
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A shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is also a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimiliating in an organized harmony the wisdom of his precedessors in the life of the Spirit. Yet he is far more int... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-933-8
Cistercian Product #: CS033
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Evagrius of Pontus: Talking Back
A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons
Translated with an Introduction by David Brakke
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How 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 them and obstructed their contemplation of God? Acc... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-329-9
Cistercian Product #: CS229P
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Evagrius of Pontus: Talking Back
A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons
Translated with an Introduction by David Brakke
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How 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 them and obstructed their contemplation of God? Acc... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-968-0
Cistercian Product #: CS229E
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Evagrius Ponticus
The Praktikos & Chapters On Prayer
Translated, with an Introduction, by John Eudes Bamberger OCSO
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The living link through whom the ascetic principles of hellenistic philosophers passed into monasticism, Evagrius molded christian asceticism through his own works and through his influcence on John Cassian, Climacus, Pseudo–Denis, and Saint Benedict... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-904-8
Cistercian Product #: CS004
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Handmaids of the Lord
The Lives of Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Selected and translated by Joan M. Petersen
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Throughout the christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models—Macrina, the two Paulas and Melanias, Radagunde—and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of thei... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-743-3
Cistercian Product #: CS143P
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Harlots of the Desert
A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources
Benedicta Ward SLG
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Beauty consuming itself like incense burnt before God in solitude: these stories of penitent women from the fourth- century egyptian desert fascinated Christians in antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-606-1
Cistercian Product #: CS106
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The Life of Saint Pachomius and his Disciples
Volume 1
Translated and annotated by Armand Veilleux OCSO; Foreword by Adalbert de Vogüé OSB
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A translation of all existing documents from the cenobitic monasteries of Pachomius (292-346).
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-945-1
Cistercian Product #: CS045
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The Lives of Simeon Stylites
Translated by Robert Doran; Foreword by Susan Ashbrook Harvey
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In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life. To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-512-5
Cistercian Product #: CS112
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The Lives of the Desert Fathers
Translated by Norman Russell, Introduction by Benedicta Ward SLG
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Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto. See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-934-5
Cistercian Product #: CS034
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Manjava Skete
Ukrainian Monastic Writings of the XVII century
Translation and introduction by Sophia Senyk
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Price: $29.95
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Anchoretism—a life of solitude and stillness—flowered in the deserts of Egypt in the fourth century and has provided a perennial model for christian monasticism. Revived in the sixteenth century the anchoretic life flourished in ruthenian lands—prese... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-792-1
Cistercian Product #: CS192P
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Mena of Nikiou
The Life of Isaac of Alexandria & The Martyrdom of Saint Macrobius
Translated and annotated by David N. Bell
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Separated by schism from greek and latin Christians and surviving under arab-islamic suzerainty, the Church of Egypt produced insightful saints and heroic martyrs in a chapter in church history now opened to readers of English for the first time. See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-607-8
Cistercian Product #: CS107P
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The Monastic Rule of Iosif Volotsky
New Revised Edition
Edited and Translated by David M. Goldfrank
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Price: $39.95
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The life and Rule of Iosif Volotsky (1439/1440-1515) reveal many of the contradictory forces at work within the medieval muscovite church and russian monasticism: social reform amid noble privilege, monastic austerity bounded by a despotic social str... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-336-7
Cistercian Product #: CS036
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Nil Sorsky
The Authentic Writings
Translated, with an Introduction, by David Goldfrank.
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Price: $39.95
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Nil Sorsky (1433/34-1508), founder of the Sora Hermitage and initiator of ‘scete’ life in among Russian Christians, is closely identified with the Orthodox contemplative prayer known as hesychasm, ‘stillness.’ In these translations, Nil’s own voice s... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-321-3
Cistercian Product #: CS221P
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Orthodoxy
Evolving Tradition
By David N. Bell
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Orthodox Christianity—divided into two main groups: Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox—is now a world-wide phenomenon and one of the fastest growing Christian traditions in the United States. In this introduction to the tradition, the author pres... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-228-5
Cistercian Product #: CS228P
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Other Writings of Saint Pachomius and his Disciples
Volume 3
Translated and annotated by Armand Veilleux OCSO, Foreword by Adalbert de Vogüé OSB
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A translation of all existing documents from the cenobitic monasteries of Pachomius (292-346).
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-947-5
Cistercian Product #: CS047
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Pachomian Chronicles and Rules
Volume 2
Translated and annotated by Armand Veilleux OCSO, Foreword by Adalbert de Vogüé OSB
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Price: $24.95
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Descriptions of Pachomian monastic communities from a variety of ancient sources, including the Lausiac History and A History of the Monks in
Egypt, and full translations of the Rule of Saint Pachomius and the Regulation of his successor, Horsiesi... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-946-8
Cistercian Product #: CS046
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Pachomian Koinonia
The Lives, Rules, and Other Writings of Saint Pachomius
Translated and annotated by Armand Veilleux OCSO; Foreword by Adalbert de Vogüé OSB
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A translation of all existing documents from the cenobitic monasteries of Pachomius (292-346). See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-094-6
Cistercian Product #: CSX08
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Paphnutius
Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius
New Revised Edition
Translation and Introduction by Tim Vivian
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The desert stood in stark opposition to the oikoumene, the inhabited world of the fourth century. Not because the world was a bad place, but because the desert —understood geographically, religiously, spiritually, and mystically — was the harsh, unco... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-540-8
Cistercian Product #: CS140
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
The Apophthegmata Patrum: The Alphabetic Collection
Translated, with an Introduction by Benedicta Ward SLG; Foreword by Metropolitan Anthony [Bloom] of Sourzah
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`Give 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. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in th... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-959-8
Cistercian Product #: CS059
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