Author: Saint Paulinus (of Nola)Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809100897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This volume contains letters 23-51
Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola
Author: Saint Paulinus (of Nola)Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809100897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This volume contains letters 23-51
Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola
Author: Nola PaulinusPublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809100880
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Twenty-two prose letters that serve as a spiritual autobiography and intimate view of monastic life in Gaul and Nola, near Naples, in the fifth century. +
Late Antique Letter Collections
Author: Cristiana SognoPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520308417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.
Expositions of the Psalms 1-32 (Vol. 1)
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)Publisher: New City Press
ISBN: 1565481402
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
"As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. In the Book of Psalms are to be found the history of the people of Israel, the theology and spirituality of the Old Covenant, and a treasury of human experience expressed in prayer and poetry. So too does the work of expounding the psalms recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustine's personal life, his theological reflections and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of Hippo."--Publisher's website.
Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola
Author: Saint Paulinus (of Nola)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola
Author: Paulinus NolanusCatalogue of the London Library, St. James Square, London
Author: London LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
The Catholic Encyclopedia: Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The Lord of Glory
Author: Benjamin Breckinridge WarfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Wandering, Begging Monks
Author: Daniel Folger CanerPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520344561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book 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.