Contemplation and Classical Christianity Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2013

This study explores Augustine's developing understanding of contemplation, beginning with his earliest accounts written before his baptism and ending with the Confessions. The arc of Augustine's thought through these years

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 21,8 Mb
• Release Date : 27 December 2018

Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 June 2024

This is a rich, informative, and inspiring compendium of the Christian tradition of prayer and contemplation from the earliest days of the Church to the present day. Included are selections

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 42,9 Mb
• Release Date : 13 April 2023

Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 30,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 September 2005

Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians. This

• Publisher : Springer Nature
• File Size : 34,8 Mb
• Release Date : 07 August 2023

In this book, Riitta Hujanen explores temporality in the context of Catholic enclosed contemplative traditions. It investigates, based on literature and other sources, what enclosed contemplatives might say about temporality

• Publisher : Harper Collins
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 04 August 2009

For the first time, Thomas Oden's Systematic Theology classic series (individually titled The Living God, The Word of Life, and Life in the Spirit) is available in one complete volume.

• Publisher : InterVarsity Press
• File Size : 26,8 Mb
• Release Date : 26 February 2019

What does a Christian life lived "by the Spirit" look like? For many Christians throughout history, fulfilling Paul's command in Galatians 5:25 included a form of contemplation and prayer that leads

• Publisher : Paulist Press
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2014

This book helps the reader in midlife crisis frame his/her experience in spiritual/contemplative terms, and thereby provides a wider context in which to understand and eventually accept it.

• Publisher : New Directions Publishing
• File Size : 39,5 Mb
• Release Date : 20 June 2012

A compendium of spiritual guidance in a beautiful special edition. “Every moment and every event in every man’s life on Earth plants something in his soul,” wrote Thomas Merton.