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A scholar turned monk, Isaac combined the increasingly technical vocabulary of the cathedral schools with the spiritual tradition of the monastery. Dialectic is here combined with meditative reflection.

Exposition on the Song of Songs

Sermons for Autumn

Initiation into the Monastic Tradition

Spiritual Meadow by John Moschos

Offers an essay on the nature of humility that revisions this fundamental Christian virtue away from the misunderstandings of both the scholastic tradition and its modern counterparts to locate humility in the ancient sources of the monastic tradition.

The Spirituality of the Christian East Volume 2

Preached to monks and edited for publication by a pastor, these sermons are applicable generally to any congregation of Christians, for human problems are the same in both church and cloister. The preacher's vivid imagery, his spontaneity and sense of excitement, and his honesty in facing sometimes harsh, unflattering realities make what he says both piercing and unforgettable.

Volume 3

Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian

The Theological and Practical Treatises and the Three Theological Discourses

The Steps of Humility and Pride

Sergius (Serge) Bolshakoff, both the author and the translator of Russian Mystics, was born in Saint Petersburg in 1901 and died in retirement at the Cistercian abbey of Hauterive, Switzerland, in 1990. His life spanned not only the Russian Revolution and the fall of Communism, but also the Christian Ecumenical Movement, in which he took an active role. Dedicated to the cause of Christian unity throughout his life and intimately familiar with the Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and the Anglican traditions and their monastic expressions, he was personally acquainted with the great leaders of the ecumenical movement: Pope John XXIII, the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, Archbishop William Temple of Canterbury, and the abbe Paul Couturier. Exiled from his homeland for most of his life, he lived in England--where he received a doctorate in philosophy from Christ Church, Oxford--or France and traveled and wrote extensively.

In Praise of the New Knighthood

Sermons on the Song of Songs Volume 4

The Golden Epistle

The Lives of the Monks of Paulestine

Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles

Spirituality of the Desert by a Monk

An insight into the unique bernardine blending of the theology of the monastic tradition and the new learning of the early 12th-century. This new edition is all the more apt because 1990 is the 900th anniversary of the birth of Saint Bernard.

The Apophthegmata Patrum: The Alphabetic Collection

Reflections on the Rule

Sowing the Seed

Musings from the Monastery

"In virtue of baptism, all are called to become missionary disciples" (Pope Francis, "The Joy of the Gospel," 119-120)