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Early Christian literature. Fathers of the Church, etc.

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  • Cyril of Jerusalemby E.J. S.J. Yarnold

    Routledge 2000; US$ 37.95

    This study of the life and works of Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, assesses Cyril's thought in the context of fourth-century theological developments and includes up-to-date translations of a selection of his writings. more...

  • Ambroseby Boniface Ramsey

    Routledge 1997; US$ 135.00

    Ambrose presents a comprehensive and invaluable introduction to the life and works of the saint. more...

  • Cyril of Alexandriaby Norman Russell

    Routledge 2000; US$ 37.95

    This book presents key selections of Cyril's writings in order to make his thought accessible to students. The writings are all freshly translated and an extended introduction outlines Cyril's life and times. more...

  • John Chrysostomby Wendy Mayer; Pauline Allen

    Routledge 1999; US$ 37.95

    This book examines John Chrysostom's role as preacher and his pastoral activites as deacon, presbyter and bishop. It also provides fresh and lively translations of a key selection of sermons and letters. more...

  • Gregory of Nyssaby Anthony Meredith

    Routledge 1999; US$ 35.95

    Gregory of Nyssa presents new translations of key selections of Gregory's writings, with an informative introduction and extensive notes and commentary to illuminate Gregory's writings. more...

  • The Interior Mountainby Simon Peter Iredale

    Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 7.50

    Designed for group or individual use, this book on Christian spirituality is based on the wise sayings of the Desert Saints of the third and fourth centuries. Each of the chapters begins with a short collection of sayings organized around a particular theme (prayer, temptation, charity, self-control, endurance, simplicity, silence, and solitude). more...

  • St. Augustine's Confessionsby Stacy Magedanz

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 5.99

    The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on St. Augustine’s Confessions takes you on a story of conversion – actually several conversions: to Manichaeism; to the pursuit of truth; to an intellectual acceptance of Christianity; and finally to an emotional acceptance of Christian faith . The Confessions is in one sense Augustine’s personal story, but it is also a mythological work about humanity’s quest to discover true peace and satisfaction. Examine the many layers... more...

  • Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christianby Gay Byron

    Routledge 2002; US$ 39.95

    There has been growing interest in recent years in the presence and image of blacks and blackness in classical antiquity. However this pioneering and much needed work is the first to survey and theorise the black as seen by early Christian writers. more...

  • The Confessionsby St. Augustine

    Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 11.99

    'The reader who has never met Augustine before ought to go first of all to the Confessions,' reflected the Trappist monk and scholar Thomas Merton. 'Augustine lived the theology that he wrote. . . . He experienced the reality of Christ living in his own soul.' Saint Augustine, the celebrated theologian who served as Bishop of Hippo from A.D. 396 until his death in A.D. 430, is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the Western world. Written in the form of a long prayer addressed directly to God, Augustine's Confessions, the remarkable chronicle of his conversion to Christianity, endures as the greatest spiritual autobiography of all time. 'Augustine possessed a strong, capacious, argumentative mind,' wrote Edward Gibbon.... more...

  • Severus of Antiochby Pauline Allen; C.T.R Hayward

    Routledge 2004; US$ 37.95

    A study of Severus, patriarch of Antioch. This book introduces his life, times and thought and provides original English translations of his main works. more...