Cistercian Publications imprint: 72 books
by Hildegard of Bingen, Jenny C. Bledsoe, Stephen H. Behnke
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Perhaps the least studied of Hildegard of Bingen’s writings, Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions is translated in this volume into English for the first time from the original Latin.
In this work of exegesis, Hildegard (1098–1179) resolves thorny passages of Scripture, theological questions,...
The Song That I Am
On the Mystery of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint Élisabeth-Paule Labat shares her interior experience of music and thus...
Bernard of Clairvaux
Theologian of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This book offers a complete study of the doctrine of the cross in the writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Until now, this theologically rich topic has not received the attention it calls for. Anthony Lane analyzes and expounds the doctrine of the cross based on the nearly seven hundred references...
Thomas Merton
Early Essays, 1947-1952
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
This volume gathers together twelve essays that Thomas Merton wrote for various journals between 1947 and 1952, the years that saw the publication of his best-selling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, his ordination to the priesthood, and his initial appointment as spiritual and intellectual...
Mystagogy
A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Mystagogy: A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita proposes an interpretation of the Pseudo-Dionysian corpus in light of the liturgical and ascetic tradition that defined the author and his audience. Characterized by both striking originality and remarkable fidelity to the patristic and late neoplatonic...
In the School of Prophets
The Formation of Thomas Merton's Prophetic Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The distinctive prophetic quality of Thomas Merton's spirituality, shaped by figures ranging from the Hebrew prophets to Thich Nhat Hanh, emerges from this fresh examination of the works Merton read, responded to, and celebrated in his own writing.
In the School of Prophets examines the final...
The Book of the Elders
Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Systematic Collection
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder,"...
A Benedictine Reader
530-1530
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A Benedictine Reader, 530–1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in one volume, using primary sources in English...
by Hilarion Alfeyev
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
From the Foreword by Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia—
Isaac the Syrian, also called Isaac of Nineveh, lived and wrote during "the golden age of Syriac Christian literature" in the seventh century. Cut off by language and politics from the Churches of the Roman Empire and branded...
Useful Servanthood
A Study of Spiritual Formation in the Writings of Abba Ammonas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Useful Servanthood introduces English-speaking readers to Abba Ammonas, disciple and successor of Saint Antony of the Desert and a prominent figure of fourth-century Egyptian monasticism. As a director of souls, Ammonas's approach to spiritual formation was a creative example of the spiritual gift...
by John Wortley, Palladius of Aspuna
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Born in Galatia in the 360s, Palladius enrolled as a monk on the Mount of Olives in his early twenties. As a monk, he traveled to Alexandria, the desert of Nitria, the Cells, Palestine, Rome, and the Thebaid. During his travels he encountered Rufinus of Aquileia, Melania the Elder, the hermit Dorotheos,...
Reclaiming Humility
Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Does humility have a place in contemporary life? Were Enlightenment thinkers wrong to reject humility as a “monkish virtue” (Hume) arising from a “slave morality” (Nietzsche)? Australian theologian Jane Foulcher recovers the counter-cultural reading of humility that marked early Christianity...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
During the “Silver Age” of the Cistercians (the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries), pseudepigraphical compositions bearing the name Bernard flourished. Important for the history of monasticism and, more broadly, of Christian spiritual formation and practice, these little-studied writings interpret,...
A Saint in the Sun
Praising Saint Bernard in the France of Louis XIV
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This volume contains translations or summaries of the most important panegyrics in praise of Saint Bernard that were preached during the reign of Louis XIV. Some of the preachers were and are regarded as the greatest orators ever to grace the French pulpit. All the translations are extensively annotated,...