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Author : Seraphim Rose
Publisher : Saint Herman Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Northern Thebaid written by Seraphim Rose and published by Saint Herman Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)
Download or read book The northern thebaid written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damascene (Hieromonk)
Publisher : St. Xenia Skete Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Father Seraphim Rose written by Damascene (Hieromonk) and published by St. Xenia Skete Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ignatius Brianchaninov
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
ISBN 13 : 0884654516
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)
Download or read book The Field written by Ignatius Brianchaninov and published by Holy Trinity Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people today are uncertain about what they believe and how they should live. They seek for a tradition that demonstrates antiquity and possesses authenticity. This newly translated volume of the writings of the Orthodox spiritual teacher Ignatius Brianchaninov offers a vision of a life that flows from following Christ. The field is both a place of spiritual struggle and a garden in which to cultivate virtues. But are we willing to respond to the challenge of a life lived in accordance with the Christian Gospel? St Ignatius' writing is the Christian tradition at its deepest, intensely practical but also transcendent and mystical.
Author : Publius Papinius Statius
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402777
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Thebaid written by Publius Papinius Statius and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus—Polynices and Eteocles—for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius reworks a familiar story from Greek myth, dramatized long before by Aeschylus in his tragedy Seven against Thebes. Statius chose his subject well: the Rome of his day, ruled by the emperor Domitian, was not too distant from the civil wars that had threatened the survival of the empire. Published in 92 A.D., the Thebaid was an immediate success, and its fame grew in succeeding centuries. It reached its peak of popularity in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, influencing Dante, Chaucer, and perhaps Shakespeare. In recent times, however, it has received perhaps less attention than it deserves, in large part because there has been no accessible, dynamic translation of the work into English. Charles Stanley Ross offers a compelling version of the Thebaid rendered into forceful, modern English. Casting Statius's Latin hexameter into a lively iambic pentameter more natural to the modern ear, Ross frees the work from the archaic formality that has marred previous translations. His translation reinvigorates the Thebaid as a whole: its meditative first half and its violent second half; its intimate portrayal of defeat and retribution, and the need to seek justice at any cost. In a wide-ranging introduction, Ross provides an overview of the poem: its composition, reception and legacy; its major themes and literary influences; and its place in Statius' life. And in a helpful series of notes, he offers background information on the major characters and incidents.
Author : Sergius Bolshakoff
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
ISBN 13 : 9781607241447
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Russian Mystics written by Sergius Bolshakoff and published by Gorgias PressLlc. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panorama of Russian Christian spirituality, richly illustrated with passages from formative works.
Author : Anna Elisabeth Rosmus
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480467960
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Out of Passau written by Anna Elisabeth Rosmus and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind the film The Nasty Girl: A memoir by a German woman who uncovered her hometown’s war crimes and complicity with the Nazis. Nestled along the Danube in southern Germany, Passau is a pleasant tourist destination known for its historic buildings and scenic views at the intersection of three rivers. But for decades, the small Bavarian city suppressed an intimate association with Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Born in Passau in 1960, Anna Rosmus discovered those dark secrets as a teenager—sordid stories of slave labor, forced abortions, and a massacre of Russian POWs. In 1994, she set out to commemorate the forgotten Holocaust victims who had died there, expecting little if any controversy. What she encountered instead was an obstructionist city council, a virulently resentful local population, and an unsettling degree of latent anti-Semitism in a town whose several hundred Jewish citizens had been sent to concentration camps. Eventually the death threats led to her own emigration from Germany to the United States. Anna Rosmus has been hailed by Marc Fisher of the Washington Post as “a rigorous researcher burning with a passion to tell the story that must be told.” In Out of Passau, she explores not only the disturbing World War II history of her hometown, but also the life-changing fallout that resulted from her determination to recognize those who had lost their lives.
Author : Abbie Farwell Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts written by Abbie Farwell Brown and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty legends of saints and friendly beasts.
Author : Robert K. Massie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307788474
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Nicholas and Alexandra written by Robert K. Massie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great “A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
Author : Barbara Calamari
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 9780670038497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Saints written by Barbara Calamari and published by Avery. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of the most enduring and enigmatic saints brings them to life through iconography, art, and story. Each profile includes a biography with canonization, patronage, feast dates, and prayers to and about each saint in a beautiful full-color format.
Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 150648851X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Visionary Women written by Rosemary Radford Ruether and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Visionary Women, influential feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether glimpses into the souls of three medieval mystics. Hildegard of Bingen, a self-taught theologian who developed a mystical secret language used in her community of mystics, became a traveling preacher and author. At the age of forty, Mechthild of Magdeburg was commanded by God to write down her visions, which resulted in seven books. Julian of Norwich prayed as a young child that she would see Christ's passion, that she would get deathly ill, and that she would long for God--all in her desire to focus her life solely on God--and He answered all three. Ruether describes the women as prophets with a God-given message for the church and society of their time. Her sympathetic overview evokes the new religious horizons they envisioned for Christianity. She discusses the three women's beliefs about God, theology, and their identity. Though they faced adversity, they challenged these notions as bold women in the faith, secure in their strong relationship with God. Visionary Women is an adaption from Ruether's award-winning book, Women and Redemption: A Theological History. Readers will join in the long tradition of keeping the mystics' messages alive and relevant.
Author : Optina Elders
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
ISBN 13 : 0884653684
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Living Without Hypocrisy written by Optina Elders and published by Holy Trinity Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second printing, this modest work is an anthology of spiritual advice given by various of the nineteenth-century teachers of Optina Monastery in central Russia, organized thematically under headings such as spiritual warfare, the love of neighbor, faith, the will of God, the education of children, the commandments of God, the path of salvation, etc. Each piece of advice varies in length from a single sentence to a full paragraph. Pithy, immediately accessible, and universally applicable, these counsels resemble the sayings of the ancient Desert Fathers. Appropriate both for prolonged study and for daily devotional reading.
Author : Orthodox Eastern Church
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN 13 : 0881412961
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)
Download or read book The Divine Liturgy written by Orthodox Eastern Church and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lydgate
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 158044427X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Siege of Thebes written by John Lydgate and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lydgate's The Siege of Thebes, written c. 1421-22, is the only Middle English poetic text that recounts the fratricidal struggle between Oedipus's sons Eteocles and Polynices as they contend for the lordship of Thebes. The text reflects the problem of poetic authority and the political and ethical themes of Lydgate's poetic career in the 1420s, when he was writing as a Lancastrian propagandist and as unofficial royal poet.
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ISBN 13 : 9780966700084
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Elder, Joseph the Hesychast written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ignatius Brianchaninov
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
ISBN 13 : 088465432X
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)
Download or read book The Refuge written by Ignatius Brianchaninov and published by Holy Trinity Publications. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prayer is a refuge of God's great mercy to the human race." The refuge is a place of inner stillness and peace where the heart is fully opened to the embrace of God's love. It is a return to the ancient paradise from which the human race, in Adam, had to depart because of disobedience to the command of God. The Refuge is an exposition of the concrete actions we should take if we truly desire to live with and in God. It weaves together meditations on scripture (from the Psalms in particular) and amplifies these with the wisdom of early Christian saints, in particular the ascetical writings of St. John of the Ladder, St. Macarius the Great, and St. Isaac the Syrian. It is an active exhortation for us to reacquire the original nobility with which God fashioned us in the beginning.
Author : Elina Pyy
Publisher : Language of Classical Lite
ISBN 13 : 9789004434905
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Women and War in Roman Epic written by Elina Pyy and published by Language of Classical Lite. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classical narratology and Julia Kristeva's subjectivity theory, Pyy scrutinises how gendered marginality is constructed in the genre and how it contributes to the fashioning of Roman imperial identity. Focusing on the ambiguous elements of epic, the study looks beyond the binary oppositions between the Self and the Other, male and female, and Roman and barbarian"--
