Poems Written in a Time of Plague

Tim Vivian

• Paperback | Engels
• Plague is both metaphor and physical presence. The poems in this volume, written between January and June of 2020, address the plagues of COVID-19; ra... Lees meer

The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies
• 2022 Catholic Media Association second place award in theology: history of theology, church fathers and mothers The Sayings and Stories of the Desert ... Lees meer

Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius

Paphnutius

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 140
• 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 t... Lees meer

Journeying Into God

• Paperback | Engels
• Journeying into God tells the fascinating stories of seven male and female monks from the fourth to the seventh centuries c.e. and their quests to imi... Lees meer

Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius

Paphnutius, Tim Vivian

• Hardcover | Engels | Monastic Studies Series
• Far from the Christian metropolis of Alexandria, removed from the well-known and much-visited monastic settlements of the Thebaid, and infintely remot... Lees meer

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Tim Vivian

• Paperback | Engels
• Why do we tell stories? Why are stories so indigenous to religion? Stories. Sacred stories. The three Western Scriptures express themselves most fully... Lees meer

The Holy Workshop of Virtue

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 234
• Saint John the Little was a monk and hegumen of Scetis (Wadi Natrun) during the first great period of early Egyptian monasticism. The Apophthegmata pr... Lees meer

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Tim Vivian

• Hardcover | Engels
• Why do we tell stories? Why are stories so indigenous to religion? Stories. Sacred stories. The three Western Scriptures express themselves most fully... Lees meer

The Life of Antony, the Coptic Life and the Greek Life

Athanasius of Alexandria

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 202
• An Encomium on Saint Anthony by John of Schmun A letter to the Disciples of Antony by Serapion of Thmuis Instrumental in the conversion of many, inclu... Lees meer

The Lives of the Jura Fathers

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 178
• Around the year 435 'just before the time of Saint Benedict 'a middle-aged man named Romanus felt drawn to the solitary life. Leaving his family, he e... Lees meer

A Doorway Into Thanks

Tim Vivian

• Paperback | Engels
• Poetry should be transitive, and deal with something other. Thus, a doorway offers transition, liminal space, an invitation, a going across, into poss... Lees meer

Words to Live by

Tim Vivian

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 207
• Give me a word, Father. From the time of Saint Antony 'at least 'younger monks would ask older, experienced monks, abbas or ammas ( 'fathers ' or 'mot... Lees meer

Poems Written in a Time of Plague

Tim Vivian

• Hardcover | Engels
• Plague is both metaphor and physical presence. The poems in this volume, written between January and June of 2020, address the plagues of COVID-19; ra... Lees meer