The Letters of St. Antony

The Letters of St. Antony
Author: Samuel Rubenson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780800629106

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.

Athanasius

Athanasius
Author: Albert Haase OFM
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-03-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 083083592X

Athanasius, one of the most influential church fathers in history, records in his Life of Antony of Egypt the story of another extremely influential figure of early Christianity. Albert Haase's paraphrase of this important work gives us access to a masterwork of spiritual formation, that we too might know God as richly as Athanasius did.

Monastic Visions

Monastic Visions
Author: Elizabeth S. Bolman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300092245

The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.

Letters of Saint Antony the Great

Letters of Saint Antony the Great
Author: Derwas Chitty
Publisher: SLG Press
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2021-09-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0728303116

Fairacres Publications 50 These seven letters were addressed by St Antony (251-356 AD) to his disciples. This hermit of the Egyptian desert draws our attention to those things which are essential in the spiritual life. Among the main themes are the witness of the Holy Spirit in the conscience of each person, the need for self-knowledge, the call to follow Christ, the unity of the Church, and our mutual co-inherence as members of the Body of Christ.

The Silent Life

The Silent Life
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1429945230

Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside . . . who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old." It is a remarkable work-one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and solitary, with a passionate defense of the contemplative's quest for God. The intense beauty of Merton's meditation, radiating from beneath its surface calm, makes The Silent Life a classic of its kind.

St. Anthony

St. Anthony
Author: Charles Warren Stoddard
Publisher: TAN Books
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 089555982X

Charles Warren Stoddard St. Anthony of Padua - lector, orator, contemplative, wonder-worker - is considered to be the most popular Saint in the Catholic Church. He was of French descent, from Portugal, but worked in Italy as a Franciscan priest. Renowned for his incredible miracles - including preaching to the fish when people would not listen to him - he is most famous as "The Patron Saint of Lost Objects," but he bears many other great titles, e.g., Doctor of the Church, Hammer of Heretics, Storehouse of Sacred Scripture, Father of Mystic Theology, Ark of Both Testaments, Champion of the Sacred Heart, Apostle of Mary's Assumption, Protector of Seafarers and Patron of a Bountiful Harvest. St. Bonaventure said of him that "He possessed the science of the Angels, the faith of the Patriarchs, the foreknowledge of the Prophets, the zeal of the Apostles, the purity of virgins, the austerities of confessors, and the heroism of martyrs." In all, one will search hard in the annals of the Saints to find a more fascinating and inspiring life than that of St. Anthony of Padua.

St. Anthony

St. Anthony
Author: Sophronius Clasen
Publisher: Franciscan Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1973
Genre: Christian saints
ISBN:

The Life of Saint Antony

The Life of Saint Antony
Author: Atanasio (Santo)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1950
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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

The Life of Antony

The Life of Antony
Author: Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher: Cistercian Publications Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780879079024

Instrumental in the conversion of many, including Augustine, The Life of Antony provided the model for subsequent saints' life and constituted, in the words of patristics scholar Johannes Quasten, 'the most important document of early monasticism.'