The chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, Kook (1865-1935) represents the renewal of the Jewish mystical tradition in modern times.
Author: translated and introduced by David J. Halperin; preface by Elliot R. WolfsonDavid Halperin
Format: Cloth
Here is the story, mainly told in his own words, of a seventeenth-century (1627-1706) Jew, raised as a Catholic, who combined his rabbinic learning, his Catholic training and a budding awareness of Eastern religions into a remarkable theory of comparative religion.
Author: translated and introduced by David J. Halperin; preface by Elliot R. Wolfson David Halperin
Format: E-Book
Here is the story, mainly told in his own words, of a seventeenth-century (1627-1706) Jew, raised as a Catholic, who combined his rabbinic learning, his Catholic training and a budding awareness of Eastern religions into a remarkable theory of comparative religion.
Here is the story, mainly told in his own words, of a seventeenth-century (1627-1706) Jew, raised as a Catholic, who combined his rabbinic learning, his Catholic training and a budding awareness of Eastern religions into a remarkable theory of comparative religion.
Sensuous, spiritual, and ethereal, this selection of works by the prominent Andalusian Sufi mystic and poet Ab_ al-Hasan al-Shushtar_ (1212-1269) will delight everyone, whether or not they are devotees of Islamic literature.
Sensuous, spiritual, and ethereal, this selection of works by the prominent Andalusian Sufi mystic and poet Ab_ al-Hasan al-Shushtar_ (1212-1269) will delight everyone, whether or not they are devotees of Islamic literature.
Contains writings by two thirteenth-century Dominicans, both doctors of the church, St. Albert the Great (1200-1280), patron saint of natural scientists, and the "common doctor," St. Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274), both famous for their contributions to philosophy and theology.
Here are selected writings of Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787) saint, bishop, founder of the Redemptorists, and doctor of the church. These writings touch on many different areas: spirituality, spiritual direction; devotion; prayer and moral theology.
This book makes available major texts in the Christian apocalyptic literature from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. The apocalyptic tradition is that of traditional philosophy based on revelation and concerned with the end of the world.
Athanasius (c. 295-373) Bishop of Alexandria, spiritual master and theologian, was a major figure of fourth-century Christendom. The Life of Antony is one of the foremost classics of asceticism. The Letter to Marcellinus is an introduction to the spiritual sense of the Psalms.
Selections from the writings of one of the most influential shapers of the western theological tradition, Augustine of Hippo (354-430), including On the Trinity, The Rule of St. Augustine, The Happy Life, On the Presence of God and other works.
"...a milestone in American religious publishing."
New Catholic World
Bernard of Clairvaux-Selected Works
translation and foreword by G.R. Evans
introduction by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B.
preface by Ewert H. Cousins
"Lord, you are good to the soul which seeks you. What are you then to the soul which finds? But this is the most wonderful thing, that no one can seek you who has not already found you. You therefore seek to be found so that you may be sought for, sought so that you may be found."
—Bern...
Named "The Prince of Mystics" by Leo XIII, Bonaventure (1217-1274), friar and professor at the University of Paris, was considered a great spiritual master in his own lifetime. These great works show the core of his vision.
A collection of poetry, sermons, treatises, and essays by 17th-century English philosophers devoted to the goodness of God and the spiritual importance of reason.
A collection of poetry, sermons, treatises, and essays by 17th-century English philosophers devoted to the goodness of God and the spiritual importance of reason.
Catherine (1447-1510), a married lay woman, was a mystic and a humanitarian, and a constant contemplative who cared for the sick and destitute. Purgation and Purgatory is a collection of sayings on spiritual purification in this life and the next. The Spiritual Dialogue gives us a readable and coherent inner history of Catherine.
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), mystic and doctor of the church, wrote The Dialogue, her crowning spiritual work, for "the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern."
Here are basic texts that reveal the spirituality of the Modern Devout, especially during the early years of the movement from 1380 to 1430. The "Modern Devotion" movement, which was originated by a Dutchman, Master Geerte Grote, is the classic expression of later medieval religious life.
Author: edited, translated and Introduced by Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner with contributions by Daniel E. Bornstein and E. Ann Matter; preface by Gabriella ZarriMaiju Lehmijoki-GardnerDaniel Bornstein
Format: E-Book
Examines the Italian Dominican laywomen's ways of life through religious rules, hagiographical texts, and women's own writings spanning the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries.
Examines the Italian Dominican laywomen's ways of life through religious rules, hagiographical texts, and women's own writings spanning the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries.
Here is an anthology of early to mid-sixteenth-century writings that illuminate the distinctive character of early Anabaptist ideology. The writings focus on the themes of regeneration, the Anabaptist fellowship and the demands of discipleship.
The spirituality of St. Dominic and his early followers was a force in thirteenth-century Europe. Here is a selection of works that represent the simplicity, ruggedness and clarity of the Dominicans' biblically-based, Christ-centered spirituality.
This volume makes available and accessible the writings of the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism during which Sufism developed as one of the world's major mystical traditions. The texts are accompanied by commentary on their historical, literary and philosophical context.
