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Book The Story of Two Heroic Monasteries

Download or read book The Story of Two Heroic Monasteries written by Thomas Bledsoe and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Two Heroic Monasteries  Arkadi and Preveli  Crete

Download or read book The Story of Two Heroic Monasteries Arkadi and Preveli Crete written by Thomas Bledsoe and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms

Download or read book Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms written by Renie S. Choy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early medieval Europe, monasticism constituted a significant force in society because the prayers of the religious on behalf of others featured as powerful currency. The study of this phenomenon is at once full of potential and peril, rightly drawing attention to the wider social involvement of an otherwise exclusive group, but also describing a religious community in terms of its service provision. Previous scholarship has focused on the supply and demand of prayer within the medieval economy of power, patronage, and gift exchange. Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms is the first volume to explain how this transactional dimension of prayer factored into monastic spirituality. Renie S. Choy uncovers the relationship between the intercessory function of monasteries and the ascetic concern for moral conversion in the minds of prominent religious leaders active between c. 750-820. Through sustained analysis of the devotional thought of Benedict of Aniane and contemporaneous religious reformers during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, Choy examines key topics in the study of Carolingian monasticism: liturgical organization and the intercessory performances of the Mass and the Divine Office, monastic theology, and relationships of prayer within monastic communities and with the world outside. Arguing that monastic leaders showed new interest on the intersection between the interiority of prayer and the functional world of social relationships, this study reveals the ascetic ideal undergirding the provision of intercessory prayer by monasteries.

Book Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents

Download or read book Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents written by John Philip Thomas and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the typkia, discussed by John Thomas in the introduction, was one of flexible and personal documents, which differed considerably in form, length, and content. Not all of them were foundation documents in the strict sense, since they could be issued at any time in the history of an institution. Some were wills; others were reform decrees and rules; yet others were primarily liturgical in character.

Book Epic Narratives in the Hoysa   a Temples

Download or read book Epic Narratives in the Hoysa a Temples written by Kirsti Evans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contextual study of narrative reliefs depicting Hindu epics and puranas on specific South Indian Hoysal a temples provides a detailed exposition of narrative episodes paired with photographs, illustrating and reviewing the stories and exploring techniques of Indian visual narrative.

Book Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud

Download or read book Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud written by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

Book A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

Download or read book A Short History of Monks and Monasteries written by Alfred Wesley Wishart and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crete

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adrian Edwards
  • Publisher : Oxford, England : Clio Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Crete written by Adrian Edwards and published by Oxford, England : Clio Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and annotates some 380 books, journal articles, conference papers, and other sources of information on Crete, focusing on both history and contemporary life. Most works described are in English, with a few in other languages. Only material published since the mid- 19th century has been included, with a heavy bias towards the late 20th century. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book A Concise History of Monks and Monasteries

Download or read book A Concise History of Monks and Monasteries written by Alfred Wesley Wishart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal

Download or read book The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal written by Herbert B. Workman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture

Download or read book John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture written by Steven D. Driver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the method of meditative reading encouraged by John Cassian (c. 360-435) in his ascetic writings, the bulk of which are fictive dialogues that purportedly record the instruction he had received from Egyptial Christian monks. This instruction was at its core an interactive experience, depending upon both the discernment of the master and diligent application of instruction by the student. Driver examines Cassian's understanding of the act of reading and suggests the implications of this for Cassian's monastic teaching and it interprets Cassian's method of reading in light of contemporary discussions of reading and the self.

Book Monastic Ecological Wisdom

Download or read book Monastic Ecological Wisdom written by Samuel Torvend and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can early medieval monasteries serve as a model of sustainable development and environmental conservation in today’s world? Inspired by Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Sí and Benedictine communities around the world whose shared monastic values inform ecological practice, Monastic Ecological Wisdom uncovers the hidden story of early Christian and monastic care for the earth. In Monastic Ecological Wisdom, Samuel Torvend shows how it is possible that medieval monastic values and practices could assist in the careful conservation of what we claim is God’s first gift, God’s first gesture of grace: the earth and all that dwells with it. By reflecting on an ecological reading of New Testament texts, the Rule of St. Benedict, and early monastic engagement with the natural world as seen in the life of St. Benedict, such practices can serve thoughtful Christians today who care deeply about living in harmony with the earth and all who call it home.

Book The heart of Midlothian  Ivanhoe  The monastery  The abbot  Kenilworth  The pirate

Download or read book The heart of Midlothian Ivanhoe The monastery The abbot Kenilworth The pirate written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monastery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sir Walter Scott
  • Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
  • Release : 2014-07-21
  • ISBN : 3849645266
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book The Monastery written by Sir Walter Scott and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ' The Monastery'' we find ourselves in Protestant England. So widespread has been the Reformation, that the monks are not only alarmed about their prestige, but their property as well. The country has been in a general state of unrest from the beginning of Queen Mary's reign until the year 1550; when peace is restored and the monks repair their ravaged shrines. "The Monastery of St. Mary" (Melrose Abbey) has been untroubled for several years, at the commencement of this tale. Father Philip, sacristan of the monastery, goes to confess the Lady of Avenel on her death-bed, and discovers a Bible in her possession. He confiscates it, but on his return meets a spectral White Lady who causes him to lose the book. The sub-prior disbelieves his strange tale and goes to Glendearg to see Lady Avenel, when he learns that the Bible has been mysteriously returned. He obtains it, in turn, and starts back to the monastery, only to have it seized by the same weird apparition. A follower of Julian Avenel is held on suspicion of complicity, but is released. Meanwhile young Halbert Glendinning, whose mother lives in Glendearg Tower, invokes the spirit of the White Lady and is conducted by her to an underground cavern where he finds the charmed volume in the midst of magic flames ...

Book A Monastery in Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Humphrey
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-07-05
  • ISBN : 022603187X
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book A Monastery in Time written by Caroline Humphrey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery—the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia—from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Often overlooked in Buddhist studies, Mongolian Buddhism is an impressively self-sustaining tradition whose founding lama, the Third Mergen Gegen, transformed Tibetan Buddhism into an authentic counterpart using the Mongolian language. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Humphrey and Ujeed show how lamas have struggled to keep Mergen Gegen’s vision alive through tremendous political upheaval, and how such upheaval has inextricably fastened politics to religion for many of today’s practicing monks. Exploring the various ways Mongolian Buddhists have attempted to link the past, present, and future, Humphrey and Ujeed offer a compelling study of the interplay between the individual and the state, tradition and history.