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  • The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West

    by Robert Taft SJ ...
    The origins and development of the Divine Office are traced through both Eastern and Western branches of the Church, providing a wealth of historical and liturgical information.From the small beginnings of a few Christians in New Testament Jerusalem, the prayer of the Church spread, changing and evolving as it met and was assimilated by different cultures.This classic study is a major resource for ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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  • The Ransom of the Soul

    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

    by Peter Brown ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Tablet Book of the YearMarking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Pilgrimage of Egeria

    A New Translation of the Itinerarium Egeriae with Introduction and Commentary

    by Anne McGowan, Paul F. Bradshaw ...
    This new version of the late fourth-century diary of journeys in and around the Holy Land known as the Itinerarium Egeriae provides a more literal translation of the Latin text than earlier English renderings, with the aim of revealing more of the female traveler’s personality. The substantial introduction to the book covers both early pilgrimage as a whole, especially travel by women, and the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Desert Christians:An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism

    An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism

    by William Harmless ...
    In the fourth century, the deserts of Egypt became the nerve center of a radical new movement, what we now call monasticism. Groups of Christians-from illiterate peasants to learned intellectuals-moved out to the wastelands beyond the Nile Valley and, in the famous words of Saint Athanasius, made the desert a city. In so doing, they captured the imagination of the ancient world. They forged ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Bible, Church, Tradition

    An Eastern Orthodox View

    by Georges Florovsky, Dion McLaren ...
    Series Book 1 - Collected works of Georges Florovsky
    Bible, Church, Tradition: An Eastern Orthodox View_Volume One In the collected works of Fr. Georges Florovsky is an excellent introduction to Orthodox biblical exegesis and ecclesiology. It should be read by Protestants, many of whom are unfamiliar with Orthodox views on Scripture, as well as Roman Catholics for an alternative view to their own tradition, as well as Orthodox themselves who are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christ's Descent into Hell

    John Paul II, Joseph Ratzinger, and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Theology of Holy Saturday

    by Lyra Pitstick ...
    Pope John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) both held Hans Urs von Balthasar in high regard. Many assume that their praise of Balthasar indicates approval of his controversial theology of Holy Saturday, but this book by Lyra Pitstick shows that conclusion to be far from accurate.Pitstick looks at what John Paul II, Ratzinger, and Balthasar have in fact said regarding ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford History of Christian Worship

    Edited by Geoffrey Wainwright, Karen B. Westerfield Tucker ...
    The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of experts as contributors, this new book will examine the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant, and Pentecostal traditions throughout history and across the world. With 240 photographs ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Catholicism

    The Story of Catholic Christianity

    by Gerald O'Collins, S. J., Mario Farrugia, S. J. ...
    The bestselling Catholicism has now been revised and updated for an eagerly-anticipated second edition. This lucid and accessible account explains how Roman Catholicism and its beliefs and practices came to be what they are. Renowned scholars Gerald O'Collins and Mario Farrugia move through history to sum up the present characteristics of Catholic Christianity and the major challenges it faces in ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Pillars Of Community

    Four Rules of Pre-Benedictine Monastic Life

    by Terrence G. Kardong OSB ...
    Anyone who has explored a great Romanesque church has been impressed, even awed, by the mighty stone foundations supporting the great central tower. As four pillars give a firm base to these soaring structures, so four ancient Rules stand beneath the foundations of Western monasticism, giving a structure on which later spiritual architects, Benedict among them, would build. In this book Terrence ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • An Introduction to the Medieval Bible

    by Frans van Liere ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    The Middle Ages spanned the period between two watersheds in the history of the biblical text: Jerome's Latin translation c.405 and Gutenberg's first printed version in 1455. The Bible was arguably the most influential book during this time, affecting spiritual and intellectual life, popular devotion, theology, political structures, art, and architecture. In an account that is sensitive to the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Eucharistic Liturgies

    Their Evolution and Interpretation

    by Paul F. Bradshaw, Maxwell E. Johnson ObISB ...
    In graduate theology programs across the United States and elsewhere, Maxwell Johnson's The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation has become a standard text. Now Johnson and Paul Bradshaw together offer a companion volume on the historical development of the liturgy and theology of the Eucharist.Like the earlier volume, this study proceeds historically, from the origins ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • On the Song of Songs

    by Gregory the Great ...
    Translated by Mark DelCogliano ...
    Series Book 244 - Cistercian Studies Series
    Gregory the Great (+604) was a master of the art of exegesis. His interpretations are theologically profound, methodologically fascinating, and historically influential. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in his exegesis of the Song of Songs. Gregory’s interpretation of this popular Old Testament book not only owes much to Christian exegetes who preceded him, such as Origen, but also ... Read more

    $27.39 USD