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Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism by Bernard McGinn
$40.00 AUD
Category: Mysticism | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century mystics su ...Show more
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Translation by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son at God's command. Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of f ...Show more
Gregory of Nyssa - The Life of Moses by Abraham J. Malherbe (Translator); Everett Ferguson (Notes by, Translator, Introduction by); John Myendorff (Preface by)
$47.95 AUD
Category: Church Fathers | Series: Classics of Western Spirituality Ser.
Here is an award-winning, new translation that brings to light Gregory's complex identity as an early mystic. Gregory (c. 332-395) was one of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers, along with St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen. +
Hildegard of Bingen - Scivias by St Hildegard of Bingen; Mother Columbia Hart (Translator); Jane Bishop (Translator); Barbara J. Newman (Introduction by); Caroline Walker Bynum (Preface by)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Mysticism | Series: Classics of Western Spirituality Series
This work contains the 26 visions of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), who was the first of the great German mystics, as well as a poet and a prophet, a physician and a political moralist. “I saw a great mountain the colour of iron, and enthroned on it, one of such great glory that it blinded my sight. ...Show more
Hildegard of Bingen - Selected Writings by Saint Hildegard; Mark Atherton (Trans.)
$29.50 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Classics Ser.
Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098 1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors, yet it ...Show more
Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
$23.00 AUD
Category: Mysticism | Series: Classics Ser.
Julian (or Juliana, no one is quite sure) was a Christian mystic born in 1342 at Norwich, England. Devout and sincere she prayed for three boons - a personal understanding of Christ's passion, physical illness to the point of death, and 'three wounds' sincere contrition, loving compassion, and a true ye ...Show more
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
$18.00 AUD
Category: Children's Literature | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"The legends of King Arthur - the most revered hero of British Mythology - have been retold many times, but Roger Lancelyn Green's version has become a classic since its first publication in 1953. Using as his sources not only Malory's MORTE D'ARTHUR but other chronicles, poems and romances, he has made ...Show more
Major Works by Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Theology | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to think that the Christian religion is true? What is truth ...Show more
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier c ...Show more
Miracles - A Preliminary Study - C. S. Lewis Signature Classic by C S Lewis
$20.00 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Series: C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
'The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.' This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimo ...Show more
Mirror of Simple Souls by Marguerite Porete
$49.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Classics of Western Spirituality Series
The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted! In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and intr ...Show more
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
$18.95 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Image Classics Ser.
Chesterton's classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief.