An anthology that includes writings by the magisterial reformers (Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, etc.) along with lesser-known names (Frith, Capito, Vermigli, etc.) to provide a unique insight into Protestant spirituality as it developed from the earliest days of the Reformation.
Here is the first English translation of Israel and Humanity, the work that constitutes a synthesis of the religious thought of this nineteenth-century (1823-1900) Italian rabbi, theologian, philosopher, and kabbalist.
Here is the first English translation of Israel and Humanity, the work that constitutes a synthesis of the religious thought of this nineteenth-century (1823-1900) Italian rabbi, theologian, philosopher, and kabbalist.
Leseur (1866-1914) was a French lay women whose work touched suffering, devotions, and lay and feminist spirituality. Contains selections from her entire corpus, including her letters, which have never before appeared in English.
Leseur (1866-1914) was a French lay women whose work touched suffering, devotions, and lay and feminist spirituality. Contains selections from her entire corpus, including her letters, which have never before appeared in English.
Leseur (1866-1914) was a French lay women whose work touched suffering, devotions, and lay and feminist spirituality. Contains selections from her entire corpus, including her letters, which have never before appeared in English.
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.
In this volume are writings from the eighteenth-century Swedish scientist and visionary (1688-1771) whose works are among the most influential in the Western esoteric tradition.
In this volume is a translation of a collection of hymns of Christ, composed by Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306-373), the most famous and prolific of the fathers of the Syriac-speaking church.
One of the foremost expositors of Sufi teachings, Fakhruddin Iraqi (1213-1289) was one of the greatest of Persian poets. His masterpiece, Divine Flashes, is a classic expression of Sufi love mysticism.
Presents the lives and sayings of some of the most renowned figures in the Islamic Sufi tradition, translated into a contemporary American English from the Persian of the poet Farid ad-Din Attar.
Presents the lives and sayings of some of the most renowned figures in the Islamic Sufi tradition, translated into a contemporary American English from the Persian of the poet Farid ad-Din Attar.
Offers for the first time in English, a translation of F_nelon's (FranÂois de Salignac de la Mothe-F_nelon (1651-1715)) major spiritual writing, the Maxims of the Saints and other seminal works of fiction and spiritual direction, such as the famous "Letter to Louis XIV."
Francis (c. 1182-1226), "The Little Poor Man" of Assisi, and Clare (c.1193-1254), "The Clear One," the woman who lived out his vision with heroic simplicity, together shaped the spirituality of early thirteenth-century Europe. Each gathered communities of like-minded persons to live out a radical commitment to the Gospel message of poverty and in the process left a legacy that has captured the imagination of both believer and nonbeliever throughout the ages.Here for the first time in English the...
Gathered here are letters of spiritual direction written by Francis (1567-1622) and Jane (1572-1641) that reveal the richness of Salesian spirituality. The letters show the daily attempts of laity, clergy, cloistered religious, and others to live in the authentic spirit of Jesus.
Francisco de Osuna (c. 1492-c. 1540) Spanish Franciscan and mystic, wrote a series of maxims as a practical guide for recollection. These were arranged into a series of Spiritual Alphabets, this being the third.
George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.
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.
Here is an award-winning, new translation that brings to light Gregory's complex identity as an early mystic. Gregory (c. 332-395) was one of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers, along with St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen.
Gregory Palamas (1296-1359) monk, archbishop and theologian was a major figure in fourteenth-century Orthodox Byzantium. This, his greatest work, presents a defense in support of the monastic groups known as the "hesychasts," the originators of the Jesus Prayer.
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.
Called by Moslems "the greatest Master," Ibn Al' Arabi (1165-1240), a Sufi born in Spain, wrote this work that was intended to be a synthesis of his spiritual doctrine.
Two early Sufi classics are contained here in one volume. They embody the essence of spiritual life in the Islamic tradition. Ibn ïAta' Illah (c. 1250-1309) was a Sufi saint and sage who lived in Egypt. Kwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006-1089) was one of major early writers of Persian mystical literature.
