The Letters of St. Antony
The Letters of St. Antony

Author: Samuel Rubenson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780800629106

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This book revolutionizes our understanding of the life and thought of the great anchorite father of the Egyptian desert. It is a signal contribution to our knowledge of Egyptian Christianity in the third and fourth centuries.—Birger Pearson, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Samuel Rubenson, by means of a fresh analysis of the letters of St. Antony, exposes the distortion of the picture of early Christian monks as unlettered and primitive. Rubenson describes the desert monasteries as centers of theological reflection in Egypt, showing how they combined the speculative philosophy of the Greeks and the biblical tradition. Included in this volume is a new translation of the letters themselves, which are shown to be authentic and an important source for the study of the desert fathers and the early monastic tradition. The later image of Antony is demonstrated to be influenced by church politics of the latter part of the fourth century. Samuel Rubenson is Associate Professor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

The Life of Saint Antony
The Life of Saint Antony

Author: Atanasio (Santo)

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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The most important document of early monasticism, written in 357, this is a biography of the recognized founder and father of monasticism. +

Saint Antony in His Desert
Saint Antony in His Desert

Author: Anthony Uhlmann

Publisher: University of Western Australia Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781742589787

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An ambitious novel of ideas set against a phantasmagoric Sydney. ~J. M. Coetzee A defrocked priest, Antony Elm, has made his way into a desert outside Alice Springs, where he intends to stay for forty days and forty nights. He is undergoing a crisis of faith and has brought with him the typescript for a book he has failed to finish about a meeting between Albert Einstein and the French philosopher Henri Bergson. This story concerns a crisis of understanding, as Bergson confronts Einstein about the meaning of time. On the back of his typescript Antony writes another story, somehow close to his heart, which concerns two young men traveling to Sydney from Canberra for the first time in the early 1980s. This story about a crisis of love takes place in a single night as the boys encounter temptation, damnation, and salvation in the world of alternative music. Antony becomes increasingly delirious, observing temptations of the flesh and spirit, scribbling in the margins of his two unspooling narratives, awaiting a rescue that may or may not come.

The Miracle of St. Anthony
The Miracle of St. Anthony

Author: Adrian Wojnarowski

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-01-19

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9781592401864

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In a city mired in endless decay, where the youth suffer through all the horrors of urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form: a tiny brick schoolhouse run by two Felician nuns where a singular basketball genius takes teenagers from the mean streets of Jersey City and turns them into champions on the hardcourt. Coach Bob Hurley had been working miracles at St. Anthony High School for over thirty years, winning state and national championships and offering his players rescue from their surroundings through college scholarships, when he met his most dysfunctional team yet. In The Miracle of St. Anthony Adrian Wojnarowski follows Hurley through a gripping and heartrending season as he struggles to lead a troubled team to glory through his unparalleled understanding of the game and his ceaseless determination to see no more children lost to these streets. In The Miracle of St. Anthony, acclaimed sports journalist Adrian Wojnarowski follows Hurley through a gripping and heartrending season, as he struggles to lead a troubled team to glory through his unparalleled understanding of the game and his ceaseless determination to see no more children lost to the city streets.

The Church of the Fathers
The Church of the Fathers

Author: John Henry Newman

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-08-25

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 3368744690

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Be Still and Know
Be Still and Know

Author: Norris J. Chumley

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1451479913

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Early Christian spirituality is a topic of enduring fascination today among scholars and general readers alike. Stories of hermits living in the desert in their pursuit of God catch our fancy. What motivated them and drew them to silence on their path to God? In this gracious tour through our tradition, Norris J. Chumley (Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer, HarperOne 2011) introduces us to Hesychasm, or silence and the lives of its early practicioners. Then, as only a teacher and mentor can, he opens up those important meanings for today.