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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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 contains the complete works of Elisabeth of Sch_nau (1129-65), a Benedictine nun and visionary whose prophetic message brought consolation to the people of her day and a call for firmness of faith and the moral life.
Here are revelations given by God to a German Benedictine nun in the thirteenth century concerning his great love for sinful man and the way in which man should respond to that love.
Hadewijch, a Flemish Beguine of the thirteenth century, is undoubtedly the most important exponent of love mysticism and one of the loftiest figures in the western mystical tradition.
This work contains the twenty-six visions of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), who was the first of the great German mystics, as well as a poet and a prophet, a physician and a political moralist.
Here are selected seminal writings of Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chancellor of the University of Paris, academic, humanist, Christian teacher and reformer, and one of the greatest theologians and mystical writers of the middle ages.
Here are witty and startling perceptions of the "feminine" nature of God by one of the greatest of all English mystics, Julian of Norwich."... these translations thus supersede former ones... if the introductions, translations, and other apparatus of the rest of the series are of the same high quality, the series will be indispensable for most libraries."—Library Journal"As truly as God is our Father,so truly is God our Mother.What, do you wish to know yourLord's meaning in this thing?Know it we...
Here is the first-ever English translation of the major works of this fourteenth-century (1291-1351) German Dominican nun and mystic. Her Revelations record the events of her spiritual journey for over fifty years of her life and reveal her gradual growth in holiness and deeper conversion to Christ.
Margaret (?-1310) was a beguine from Hainaut who was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic. Here is the first modern English translation of the complete text of The Mirror, written between 1296 and 1306, a theological treatise that analyzes how love in humans is related to divine love and how the soul may experience a lasting union with God in this life.
This volume includes a translation of four spiritual treatises of Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), plus an account of his trial. Included are The Four Hundred Chapters of Love, Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, Chapters on Knowledge, The Church's Mystagogy, and Trial of Maximus.
Here is the first English translation based on the new critical edition of The Flowing Light of the Godhead, the sole mystical visionary work of Mechthild, a 1thirteenth-century (c. 1260-c. 1282/94) German Beguine. This challenging work of deep religious insight reflects Mechthild's inner life, and God's as well, employing a great variety of traditional medieval literary forms and genres in prose and verse.
Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) was a Dominican philosopher and spiritual master whose thought is among the most daring and difficult in the history of western mysticism. This volume contains his technical Latin writings and more popular German sermons.
Here are texts that illustrate the diversity of one of the most enigmatic and influential mystics of the Western Christian tradition. Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) is represented here as teacher, with commentaries, and preacher, with sermons.
For the first time in one volume in English are the spiritual writings of this outstanding intellectual figure (1401-1464) whose work anticipated modern problems of ecumenicity and pluralism, empowerment and reconciliation, and tolerance and individuality.
