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The first Western autobiography since Augustine's Confessions, the Monodies is set against the backdrop of the First Crusade and offers stunning insights into medieval society. As Guibert of Nogent intimately recounts his early years, monastic life, and the bloody uprising at Laon in 1112, we witness...

In 1969, I was teaching at two seminaries inthe Chicago area. One of my courses wason the parables by Jesus and the other wason the resurrection stories about Jesus. I hadobserved that the parabolic stories by Jesusseemed remarkably similar to the resurrectionstories about Jesus. Were the latter intended...

El Castiilo interior o Las moradas son el principal texto místico de Teresa, describen un recorrido por los entresijos del espíritu en busca de la iluminación.

La Guía espiritual fue denunciada por el cardenal D'Estrées, embajador en Roma del rey de Francia Luis XIV y ex amigo personal de Miguel de Molinos. Tras la denuncia Molinos fue apresado junto con algunos de sus discípulos el 18 de julio de 1685, procesado «por inmoralidad y heterodoxia» y condenado...

Empezó en la cárcel la Exposición del libro de Job (1583), con rasgos biográficos. Suma de las tradiciones bíblica y agustiniana y del neoplatonismo renacentista, esta obra muestra un notorio dominio de la lengua (que a juicio de fray Luis no era «dura ni pobre, sino de cera para los que la saben tratar»).

Esta traducción de Fragmentos de la Biblia es célebre por sus altos vuelos poéticos. Cuando se difundió su traducción del Cantar de los cantares a partir del hebreo, fray Luis de León fue acusado de infringir la prohibición del Concilio de Trento, que estableció como oficial la versión latina...

Constituciones que la madre Teresa de Jesús dio a las Carmelitas Descalzas es uno de los textos constitutivos de la Orden de las carmelitas descalzas.

THERE are two women who ought to be constant objects of the compassion of the disciples of Christ, and for whom daily prayers ought to be offered at the mercy-seat—the Brahmin woman, who, deceived by her priests, burns herself on the corpse of her husband to appease the wrath of her wooden gods;...

This introduction presents Martin Luther as historians now see him. Instead of singling him out as a modern hero, the book emphasizes the context in which Luther worked, the colleagues who supported him, and the opponents who adamantly opposed his agenda for change. Scott H. Hendrix explains the religious...

Who was the amazing Otto Rahn? How come if Rahn was such an amazing man has hardly anyone outside specialist pre-WW2 history circles ever heard of him? But is he really such an unknown? The story lines of Raiders of the Lost Ark to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade mirror Rahn’s incredible adventures in the South of France in the early 1930s.

C. S. Lewis was a prolific letter writer, and his personal correspondence reveals much of his private life, reflections, friendships, and the progress of his thought. This second of a three-volume collection contains the letters Lewis wrote after his conversion to Christianity, as he began a lifetime...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS An Original Essay on Witchcraft News from Scotland To the Reader A True Discourse of the Damnable Life of Doctor Fian, and Sundry other Witches, lately taken in Scotland, Another Account of...

For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, "godliness," as manifested by the body, was the sign of election, and the body, with its material demands and metaphorical significance, became the axis upon which all colonial activity and religious meaning turned. Drawing...

An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae*.* At the dawn of the thirteenth century, Constantinople stood as the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire, it was a center...